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_ 1 the question, David Souter, are you a racist?
2 Judge Souter. The answer is, no.
3 Senator Simpson. A crazy question to ask, is it not?
4 Judge Souter. Well, far be it for me to say that a
question from you, Senator, is crazy.
6 [Laughter.]
7 Senator Simpson. No, do not. Just stop right there.
Senator Hatch. But we all agree.
9 Senator Simpson. Do not listen to them, just go ahead
10 Judge Souter. In a way, I think that answer might have
11 been impressive to some people if I had grown up in a place
12 with racial problems, and some people have pointed out that I
13 did not. The State of New Hampshire does not have racial
15 So you can ask, well, what indication is there, really,
16 as to whether you mean it or not. And you did not provoke
17 this thinking on my part by your question immediately because
18 I thought of it before I came in here. I can think of two
19 things to say.
20 The first is something very personal and very specific
21 to my family. In a way, it surprises me when I look back on
22 the years when I was growing up that never once, ever in my
23 house that I can remember did I ever hear my mother or my
24 father refer to any human being in terms of racial or ethnic
25 identity. I have heard all tHe slang terms and I never heard 468
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HEADLINE: Discrimination Charge Upheld
DATELINE: CONCORD, N.H.
KEYWORD: Nh- Discrimination
BODY: The New Hampshire Supreme Court has upheld a state Commission on Human Rights' decision that a New Hampshire construction company discriminated against a worker because he was black.
In a three to one vote Friday the court ruled in favor of a suit filed by Leonard Briscoe. The court ordered E.D. Swett Inc. to pay Briscoe $2,338.56 in back wages and $750 in attorney's fees.
Briscoe had filed suit with the commission after he was passed over for work on a 1979 project in Lisbon. Briscoe said that he had worked for Swett before, and was qualified to do the work. The company instead hired three workers who they had not employed before, although the company had a policy of giving preference to former workers.
Officials of the commission said Friday they are pleased to have won one of the few discrimination cases to have come before the state's courts.
11 The commission's general way of evaluating discrimination cases has been upheld here,'1 said Merryl Gibbs, the commission's executive director.
The commission had originally awarded Briscoe $1,000 in compensatory damages in addition to the money awarded by the court. The decision not to award the compensatory damages was the basis for the lone dissenting opinion.
Justice Charles Douglass wrote in his decision, ''Pecuniary loss and mental anguish can be the effects of discrimination. The award of compensatory damages will serve to eliminate the effects of discrimination, prevent future discriminatory practices, and ensure that victims of unlawful discrimination are made whole.'' 469
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HEADLINE: Thomson says South Africa making progress
BYLINE: By DEIRDRE WILSON
DATELINE: CONCORD, N.H.
KEYWORD: Nh-Thomson
BODY: Eormer Gov. Meldnm Thomson, just back from a trip to South Africa, said Monday Bishop Desmond Tutu is willing to embrace communism to end the white minority rule of his racially torn nation.
The ultra-conservative Thomson, who toured South Africa for 17 days last month, said he met with the Nobel Prize winner in Cape Town and Tutu said he was more interested in full political power for blacks rather than just eliminating apartheid.
''Tutu doesn't have any trouble socializing with communists and I think he rather likes it,'1 Thomson said in a telephone interview from his home in Orford. He said the religious leader would risk civil war and communist intervention to bring full power to the nation's black majority.
Thomson returned from South Africa and went directly to Washington last week to lobby against U.S. economic sanctions. He said South African blacks oppose the sanctions, which survived a presidential veto.
''They know they will lose their jobs,11 Thomson said. ''We're nuts. They have been our friends and allies since World War Two.''
Thomson said the South African government had made ''tremendous strides toward eliminating apartheid'' since his visit in 1978, when he was serving his - third term as governor.
Thomson, 74, who once ordered state flags lowered on Good Friday, stirred controversy during his first trip to South Africa when he described the black ghetto of Soweto as a ''wonderful place'' and proclaimed Prime Minister John Vorster a ''great world statesman.1'
He said his latest tour found ''marked improvement'' in black housing. He also said blacks' rights and working conditions had improved.
Thomson said coal-to-oil converting plants and uranium mines offered 11 fabulous,'' high-paying jobs for black South Africans.
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He described the poverty-stricken Cross Roads section of Cape Town as ''rather terrible,'1 but said the government was working hard to provide food and medical services for black residents.
In his weekly Monday column in The Union Leader newspaper of Manchester, Thomson said South Africa needed patience and understanding, not the ''dirty game'' economic sanctions approved by Congress last week.
He described South Africa as a ''peaceful, hard-working little nation of less than 30 million.1'
Thomson said he financed his own trip to South Africa. He represented the Conservative Caucus in his 1978 tour, which was financed by a group of South African businesses. 471
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LENGTH: 240 words
DATELINE: CONCORD, N.H.
KEYWORD: Thomson-Carter
BODY: Gov. Meldrim Thomson accused President Carter of making a "false statement" about Thomson's position on South Africa and demanded an apology Sunday.
In an open letter to the president, who visited New Hamsphire on Saturday, the conservative Republican governor challenged the administration to a debate on U.S. policy concerning South Africa.
Carter, addressing high school pupils in Nashua on Saturday, had said Thomson is "the only American leader that I know who has endorsed, in effect, apartheid and condoned or approved the attitude of the South African government."
Thomson, national chairman of the Conservative Caucus, recently toured white-ruled South Africa. He praised the government of Prime Minister John Vorster and said South African blacks have more economic and political freedom than blacks in other African nations.
"I have never endorsed, condoned or approved apartheid, and no one in America can point to a word that I have ever written or said that would give that impression," Thomson said in his open letter to Carter. "In the American spirit of fair play and decency, I respectfully call on you to retract your false reference to me."
Rex Granum, deputy press secretary to Carter, said Sunday that the president "stands by what he said. I would further direct you to other comments the president made . . . when he said, "There are very few matters upon which your governor and I agree.'" 472
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HEADLINE: Jackson seeks meeting with ultra-conservative
DATELINE: WARNER, N.H.
KEYWORD: Nh-Jackson-newhamp
BODY: Jesse Jackson's supporters pressed Friday for a meeting between the Democratic presidential hopeful and a state senator who publicly told a racial joke about Jackson.
Sen. John H.P. Chandler, whose racial comments cost him his honorary position with the presidential campaign of Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y-, said he saw no need to meet Jackson Sunday night when the candidate comes to the state to formally announce his candidacy.
Chandler, who is white, described the proposed meeting as an attempt to draw news media attention to Jackson's campaign.
''We still are trying,11 Steve Cancian, Jackson's New Hampshire coordinator, said of efforts to have the two men meet. He said the meeting idea originated with New Hampshire supporters and was accepted by Jackson.
••I think our true intent is a reconciliation,'1 Cancian said Friday from the campaign's Manchester headquarters.
•'Jesse Jackson would not change 80 years of Jack Chandler's thoughts, but they can reach some understanding,11 Cancian said. ''It's a sincere effort on the part of Jesse Jackson.
1'Part of Jesse Jackson's message is people can always talk to each other,'' Cancian added.
* _ . Chandler, 76, who could not be reached Friday at his Warner home, told the Jackson joke at several public events during the summer. He later was quoted as saying that he almost ''threw up'' when he saw Jackson kiss a young white girl.
In an interview Thursday, Chandler said of the kissing incident, lfI wasn't . actually sick to my stomach.''
flI have got a very strong stomach, but I didngt like seeing him (Jackson) kiss a pretty young woman with blond hair and a peaches and cream complexion,1' Chandler was quoted as saying by The Union Leader newspaper. 473
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Asked if he considered himself a racist, Chandler said, "I an loyal to the race I am a member of, like Indians and black men are loyal to their race.11
Chandler, a Republican, has enraged his critics with his ultra-conservative views. He has led the fight in New Hampshire against a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr., calling the slain civil rights leader an ''evil man.1'
The joke Chandler told about Jackson was: ''Jesse Jackson has stopped running for president because it was found out that his grandmother had posed for the centerfold of National Geographic.1' 474
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September 6, 1987, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: FIRST SECTION; PAGE All; POLITICS
LENGTH: 197 words
HEADLINE: No Apology Offered
BYLINE: Maralee Schwartz, Paul Taylor
BODY: The presidential campaign of Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) last week removed New Hampshire state Sen. John Chandler Jr. as an honorary county chairman in the campaign when he refused to repudiate or apologize for what he said was a joke he told about Jesse L. Jackson.
"Not only wouldn't he apologize," said Kemp press secretary John Buckley, "he then wouldn't resign."
. . Chandler said he still will support Kemp, but added, "I'm not going to apologize for anything I said because this is a free country .... I believe I have a right to express my opinion."
What Chandler said at various public events last month was that "Jesse Jackson has stopped running for president because it was found out that his grandmother had posed for the centerfold of National Geographic."
Chandler, who denies he is a racist, also has complained that "race mixing" is threatening the white race.
"We feel there's no room for that in our campaign," said Paul Young, director of Kemp's campaign in New Hampshire, although he did not disavow Chandler's support.
Young said Kemp, who earlier repudiated Chandler's remarks, demanded the apology last week after he was told Chandler had not made one.
TYPE: NATIONAL NEWS
SUBJECT: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES; RACIAL DISCRIMINATION; UNITED STATES
NAMED-PERSONS: JACK KEMP; JOHN CHANDLER; JESSE L. JACKSON 475
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HEADLINE: Rights nominee's company cited in past
DATELINE: CONCORD, N.H.
KEYWORD: Nh-Discnminate
BODY: The construction company of a nominee to New Hampshire's human rights commission previously has been found guilty by the same panel of discriminating against a black construction worker.
Richard H. Cole, who is president of E.D. Swett Inc., was nominated Wednesday by Gov. John Sununu to the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights.
In January 1983, the state Supreme Court upheld a decision by the human rightscomcnission against E.D. Swett. The court ruled 3-1 that E.D. Swett was guilty of discriminating against Leonard Briscoe, who had been passed over for a job on a 1979 project in Lisbon.
Briscoe, who was awarded $2,3338 in back pay and $750 in attorney's fees, said the company hired three workers with no experience. He said he had worked for E.D. Swett before and was qualified to do the work.
E.D. Swett had a policy of giving preference to former workers.
Sununu said he had been informed of the past racial discrimination complaint and was investigating it.
''Obviously, I am concerned that both the reality and perception of the fairness of the human rights commission be maintained,'' Sununu said in a statement. ''If the record is verified, then I will withdraw the nomination.''
" " Swett could not immediately be reached at his home in Bow or at his construction company.
The Executive Council is scheduled to consider the nomination at its next meeting in early September.
The rights commission investigates complaints of sexual or racial discrimination. It was not clear when the panel ruled on the Briscoe complaint. 476
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HEADLINE: Discrimination ruling forces withdrawal of rights nominee
BYLINE: By RICHARD MARCH
DATELINE: CONCORD, N.H.
KEYWORD: Nh-Sununu
BODY: Admitting he made a mistake, Gov. John Sununu said Wednesday he will withdraw his human rights panel nominee whose construction firm was found guilty of discriminating against a black worker.
Sununu also said his nomination of state university system trustee Max Hugel is on hold pending the outcome of an attorney general's investigation into accusations that Hugel associated with a reputed organized crime figure.
Richard H. Cole, president of E.D. Swett Inc., was nominated last week by Sununu to the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights.
The commission previously ruled that E.D. Swett was guilty of discriminating against Leonard Briscoe, who had been passed over for a job on a 1979 project in Lisbon. The state Supreme Court upheld the commission's decision in January 1983.
Sununu said his administration never ''made the connection'' between the discrimination ruling and his human rights nominee. He said Cole had been contacted and the nomination would be officially withdrawn Sept. 4. when Sununu meets with the Executive Council.
''We made a mistake there,'' Sununu told reporters. ''In that particular case, we missed the lawsuit.''
Sununu said Cole is a ''good person'1 of ''solid character,11 but ''the perception of that commission is that it has to be fair.1'
In a letter to Sununu, former commission member Nancy Richard -Stower said Cole's nomination sent a message that ''John Sununu cares not one iota about the enforcement of New Hampshire's laws against discrimination."
Sununu said Attorney General Stephen Merrill and state safety officials are conducting ''an infomial review'' of charges that Hugel associated with George Kattar at a televised boxing match at Hugel's Rockingham Park in April 1985. 477
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Kattar, 67, who has homes in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, is awaiting trial on federal extortion charges. Kattar was convicted of tax evasion in 1970.
Four men, including Sen. Robert Stephen, D-Manchester, and state highway safety official Jay McDuffee, have said Hugel introduced them to Kattar. Hugel has denied that.
Sununu said one aspect of his administration's investigation will focus on whether federal authorities have a record of Kattar's whereabouts on the night the introductions allegedly occurred.
''I'm trying to get that,1' Sununu said.
Sununu said he had no idea when Merrill would finish his investigation into the incident and Hugel's nomination would remain ''on hold1' until Sununu has results. He said he would then decide whether to continue with Hugel's nomination.
''There's a man's lifetime reputation at stake there,'' Sununu said.
Asked whether the Huyel allegations were politically motivated, Sununu said the election year ''makes people bring forward things. I don't know if that's the particular case in this instance,1' Sununu said.
Republican Executive Councilor and congressional candidate Louis Georgopoulos delayed Hugel's nomination vote last week because of the alleged Kattar-Hugel connection. 478
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November 1, 1989, Wednesday, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 9A '
LENGTH: 72 words
HEADLINE: NEW HAMPSHIRE
DATELINE: CONCORD
BODY: Gov. Gregg will meet Friday with legislative leaders on projected $ 30 million-$ 50 million state budget shortfall. Gregg wouldn't rule out tax, fee hikes, says state department heads should expect more layoffs, spending cuts. ... MANCHESTER - Raphael Club members voted to apologize, offer membership to David Barnes, black man who was refused drink there last September. Club accepted president Richard Creeden's resignation.
TYPE: Across the USA
SUBJECT: BUDGET; BLACKS; DISCRIMINATION 479
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HEADLINE: N.H. city to mark King holiday
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH, N.H.
KEYWORD: NH-KINGDAY
BODY: An organizer of an effort to establish a Martin Luther King holiday in New Hampshire said Tuesday that a vote for a local King holiday in Portsmouth will encourage the Legislature to take similar action.
New Hampshire and Montana are the only two states that do not observe the third Monday in January as a holiday to honor the slain civil rights leader. Half-a-dozen attempts to pass a King holiday bill in the New Hampshire Legislature have failed and supporters have turned their attention to municipalities and school districts.
Portsmouth City Council approved the King holiday Monday night on an 8-1 vote.
''I think it's very helpful,11 said Arnie Alpert of the Martin Luther King Day Committee. ''It will serve as a reminder to the state that the issue has not gone away and will be back in the next legislative session. There will be increasing national attention on New Hampshire. ''
Alpert cited a planned Ku KLux Klan rally in Exeter and the sale of Nazi paraphernalia at the Cheshire County Fair last week as examples to show that racism still exists.
1'That makes King Day more important for us,11 he said.
King Day will be a paid holiday in the Portsmouth School District next year and for all Portsmouth city employees in 1992.
This year the King holiday was celebrated in 35 New Hampshire school districts and in the cities of Dover and Nashua. Alpert said more school districts will celebrate the holiday in 1991.
Monday night's vote prompted a standing ovation among the 100 City Hall spectators.
The measure to establish King Day as a city holiday was introduced by Assistant Mayor James Splaine, who introduced the first King holiday bill in the Legislature when he was a senator. 480
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11 We are commemorating Martin Luther King for his ideals and principles,11 Splaine said. 11Civil rights is vital to all minorities in our society.11 481
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HEADLINE: Race unity day follows Klan activity
DATELINE: EXETER, N.H.
KEYWORD: NH-RACISM
BODY: Organizers of an upcoming ''Race Unity Day'1 have turned down the request of a Ku Klux Klansman who wanted to recruit town residents to his white supremacist - group during the annual event.
''The sole purpose of Race Unity Day is to focus on proclaiming the oneness of humankind,'' said Jonathan Ring, secretary of the Exeter spiritual assembly of the Baha'i Faith, which is organizing the event next Sunday. The Baha'i Faith preaches the family of Man and world peace, Ring said.
State KKK leader, or ''Grand Dragon,11 Thomas Herman, 29, ran unsuccessfully for selectman in Exeter•s March election. He came in last among five candidates with 145 votes of 2,651 ballots cast.
11 In Exeter, this is a particularly attractive issue,'' Ring said. ''The Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has forced the issue to attention in our community.''
Herman has been seen trying to recruit Klan members in Exeter, a blue-collar town of about 13,000 people and home of the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy.
About a week ago, Ring said, Herman asked to set up a display table on Race Unity Day next to presentations by groups such as the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People.
Ring turned him down. ''Only tables which accentuate positive steps are ' _ permitted,'' Ring said.
Herman said he and other Klan members will show up anyway and distribute literature.
''They are discriminating against us,'1 Herman said. "I am definitely going to be there.''
-Although Herman says he he will not start any trouble, a town official is worried about potential clashes. 482
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''If the KKK has got some ideas of coming in and disrupting (the event),... I am concerned. I am very concerned,'' said Paul Binette, chairman of the Board of Selectmen. ''I would like to see the KKK stay out of it and let the organizations have their own day.''
Binette said he is considering security measures for the event.
The festival at Swasey Park in the Seacoast community is set to include puppet shows, a picnic, music and story-telling, Ring said. 483
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SECTION: NEWS
LENGTH: 72 words
HEADLINE: NEW HAMPSHIRE
DATELINE: EXETER
BODY: KKK organizer Thomas Herman said he will appeal denial of permit for Aug. 25 rally at privately funded park. Rules of trusteeship say racist groups cannot rally in Swazey Parkway, trustees said Friday. ... BRENTWOOD - Val D'Iserre Shopping Village - 24,800-sq.-ft., 7-building shopping center designed to resemble 300-year-old French village, ski resort - is bankrupt after 1 year, will be auctioned Sept. 13, official said.
TYPE: Across the USA
SUBJECT: KU KLUX KLAN; DEMONSTRATION; COURT; RETAIL STORE; BANKRUPTCY; SKIING 484
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LENGTH: 486 words
HEADLINE: News Focus: Rights commission faces complaint crunch
BYLINE: By JACQUELINE HUARD
DATELINE: CONCORD, N.H.
KEYWORD: Nh-Rights
BODY: The New Hampshire Human Rights Commission is handling a record number of complaints, and a serious backlog will develop without a permanent third investigator, the executive director said Thursday.
Gov. John H. Sununu and the Executive Council last week approved a nearly $62,000 federal Housing and Urban Development grant for a two-year project to educate the public about housing discrimination.
The commission is using part of the money to hire a third investigator for one year. Director Merryl Gibbs said she will ask the Legislature to make the position permanent.
''Two investigators is simply not enough,'' she said. ''Without a third investigator, we are going to be running into very serious backlogs.'1
The commission enforces all state laws prohibiting discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation, and all federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment and housing.
There were 197 formal complaints filed with the commission in fiscal 1981; 164 in fiscal 1982; and Ms. Gibbs expects 216 for fiscal 1983 — a record number of discrimination complaints for the agency.
At the end of May, there were 247 complaints pending.
The high number of complaints can be attributed to an improvement in the economy, she said. The drop off in fiscal 1982 occurred when the economy was faltering.
''People were just not willing to rock the boat,11 Ms. Gibbs said.
A person filing a complaint with the commission will have the dispute assigned to an investigator within two days to two weeks. A fact finding conference for both parties will be scheduled within six weeks to be held at a future date. 485
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Although most complaints are settled within three to four months, a few rare and complicated cases could take two to three years, Ms. Gibbs said.
More than 50 percent of the complaints are settled through negotiation before a hearing is held. The person who filed the complaint usually will get what they consider is most important — a job, back wages, a raise, promotion, or a policy change — but generally not complete relief, she said.
''But, I will not agree to settlements which will allow the discriminatory practice to continue,1' Ms. Gibbs said.
Sex discrimination complaints alleging unequal treatment in hiring, firing, layoffs, wages, promotions, working conditions, as well as claims of sexual harassment and discrimination against pregnant women continue to make up the bulk of complaints, she said.
Persons who believe they have been discriminated against because of age or physical handicap are filing more complaints. There also is a small increase in allegations of discrimination based on race and national origin, she said.
There are dangers in delaying investigations. Witnesses may move or die. Memories fail. Documents may become lost. Damages sought by the complainant pile up.
''And the burden on the staff can become tremendous,'' Ms. Gibbs said. 486
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Daniel Webster CoLlege University Drive Nashua, New Hampshire 03060 March 2, 1979
E.B. Bynum 15th Pineridge Goffstown, New Hampshire 03945 Dear Sir:
We the Minority Students at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, New Hampshire are terrified and fear for our safety and lives; by the threats, verbal abuses and harassments that are made on us daily by fellow students and members of the college's administration. (principally Fred Schatz, Dean of Students).
These harassments range from students dressing as members of the Klu Klux Klan, walking around the college yelling, "We don't want your Jod/id around here," to the breaking, entering and destruction of our rooms and personal properties. The slurs K.K.K. and NIGGER SUCKS are frequently written on the walls of our rooms. We are calling on you as responsible authorities to investigate on behalf of us to help uphold our Constitutional Rights as citizens of the United States of America, and Foreign Students.
Thank you for your help in this matter.
Sincerely Yours,
(25 s ignatures) 488
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Lloyd I.A. Walford Daniel Webster college Nashau, N.H. 03060
3 April 1979
To whom it may concern: I am a student at Daniel Webster College who is concerned about the recurring incidents of racial discrimination. A number of black students have suffered verbal abuse from white students. The only two black women living on campus have suffered verbal abuse, vandalism, and burgulary of their rooms. They have been humiliated in front of their fellow students. There is no reason why anyone should be subjected to such harassment.
My major concern (and I am sure many other minority students feel this way) is that if incidents such as these go untreated, then trouble makers will not think twice before causing disruptive incidents such as these in the future.
Respectfully,
Lloyd I.A. Walford March/April 1978 OAJCKrXLAUJANCErtEWSPAG£7 Thomson Visits South Africa1'' noted that they will be mnpkied only five years after tkry were proposee' without the delays caused by the limited oriamzed opposinoa in the licensing process allowed U.S. Nuclear Industry Backs Apartheid in the Doited Stales but forbidden in Soot* by KoWa Head Africa. The Soufk African press also asked Thomson about his haodstag of the April "...h h chat that Ik. Snath African regime future of America's nuclear program process developed by South Africa. On April 30th Seabrook occupation He replied. "We hopes to tab advantage of In sceMou Boston A; -United Nadoaa Special Comaatltoe Agabst cent of the uranium m the capitaltsi world has discovered a short cut to producing an Logan be dodged another gtoap of AfaU Presently there is a ban oa the eapon of atomic bomb." prottstors b\ saeakiog out a side exit He uraoiura n> Australia, doe largely to the Itepwt «< •nbrommrnwr an the Inaalnmeata- The Carter Administration wtX he unable then ducked a picket fine in front of tke opposition to nuclear power and uaciear to exert — h pleasure oa South Africa Governor's Mansion ia Concord and crave oan ef UK ResoluOns nd CtfaooratSon weapons on tbe part of Australian labor trilh South Africa 1775 drrecriy instead to his secluded farm in onions and the Australian people. The and lacumag tbe wrath of the powerful Orion! movement agajnst nuclear power is growing M«Ldnm Thomson's January trip to South nuclear mdustry and energy coogloirjeraies. m Canada, and the United States is expected Africa and bis statements while there Nine U.S. oil comnanJes control TV per cent to run met of uranium wtthui JO years, even supporting that natron's apartheid system of U.S. nranhrm reserves. U. S. Corporations at the current slow rate of construction of and nuclear energy program served to assisted South Africa in the research aad nuclear power plants. further discredit the already besieged development of the technology needed to This leaves South Africa as an recover uranium irons Soon African goh) at a time when his popularity is ia rapid iodispensjUe "secure" source of future reserves American companies with decline. uunium supplies for the United States The Evea many long-tune Thomson supporters U.S. government, therefore, if it continues and reserves include Union Carbide. Utah felt he went too far this time Some of bis to push tmctear power is an energy scarce, Mining, aad rtewmont Maoog. Alls more outrageous remarks during his tour, will be forced, like it or not. to keep South Chalmers built an early teat reactor for South sponsored by a South African business Africa as an ally, Aits supporting a racist Africa. Westingkouse. (builders of Ike group, included calling Soweto. the regime that is an outlaw government in the Seabmok reactors). Combustkm Engineer- desperate!} poor bEaek urban township eyes of most of the nations of the world and ing (builders of the Seabrook reactor vessel). outside Johannesburg, "beautiful." saying the source of oppression for over 18 million General Bectric and Babcock-WUcoa were that South African Prime Minister John black people Also, so much for the "energy in competihoa with West German aad Vorster was a "great statesman." and independence" nuclear power was suppose French companies for the contracts to build declaring that South Africa had a -free to bring us. South Africa's two aew reactors. Pubhc p»ess" and' 'tree elections-'' The United States and I). S. Corporations Service Company of New Hampshire is Thomson's stated purpose for mating the helped Sooth Africa start its nuclear power buying uranium from two corparutioas with mj> mas his Desire to observe South Africa's program us 1957 by building a leu reactor mining interests ia South Africa-Getty OU energy policies, particularly its nuclear there, calledi Safari 1. and) training Smth. and HoaMStaa* Mining. program While there, he supported Snub African scientists inside the United States. The largest arajMtat naiae ia tte world is Africa's "right" to develop unclear weapon The U.S. atao agreed to supply South Africa located near Swaxeeound, Namibia, also despite (He bet that the country b one of the with enriched arantum fuel under a 20 year known as Southwest Africa. South Africa few in Ihe world nth the tediaotogv to contract. In 1973 the Nixon AdminstratioK controls WaiaoBsa In spite of a Wt6 United produce nuclear weapons that has refusal to signed new contracts with Snath Africa to Harass resolution declaring the Southwest sign the MM Nuclear Non-profifcrsrku supply enriched uraahn for tbe two Africa Peoples Organization CSvTAPTO.as Treaty. The treaty, signed by over 90 Seabrook-eized reactors now under construc- the legvtunatt repRsentatives of On people nations, commit! countries without nuclear tion In Koeberg, near Cape Tain. The of Namibia. weapons to forego developing them. - In Carter administration Is currently grafted: Meanwhile. African uranium saine work- return, the nuclear powers an •utuputuu' to in a hahr-hearled attempt to slow South ers oi Namibia anu the rest of South Africa begin reducing their nudes* weapons Africa's development af nadear weapons by stockpiles. rhreatenmg to withhold shipments of the their lau^ies?wora>nderbrutal condSrious. On the trip. Thomson was. fat effect, enriched uranium Jn> the Pretoria Govern- and ara csposod at the sane heakfc aarards acting as an ambassador foe racist elements ment unless it (trees to sign the Nuclear withm the United .State ttal rapport' the Non proliferadon Treaty. South Africa, death of uranium maun around the work). Vorster regime, and as a lobbyist for the though. Is now bidding Hs own enricoioeat indudteg Navajo aad Hopi Native Ameri- nucteir bidastrjr and canty companies who plant that will aooa make It Independent of s ua the Southwest Hatted Slates. uadrrstanu that access to South Africa's . the U.S. as a source of * ' huge.uranium deposits b crucial to the -The faculty wil .'** [Concord Monitor, January 1982] Parent Claims Racial Discrimination By STEVEN MORRISON AaasdatodPress Writer JUflonr amah* to the Wanda alalbry. NgjaTs grade or an extended leaning MnOOl DMTd* WttCD VtttB* waste stepmother and a laav 5aos. PETERBOROUGH - A Imousfr voted last night to up- eoek native, said afterftebeer- b January 1911, school afd- Mark parent «ay» a Cbntoocook hoUReloy* decision. teg that her community • "a dals fssnd KlgeTs IQ to bo Valley ScboolBoard dedstoo -I ntee to bring my ehfld rea. about two years ahead of his not to lethis*year-o»d sonsUn bock to tht MbUc schools Mta ^stey saU be otopp ago. Rctdy detonded tbe flve- a grade is "a shaft" that heww a proper placement has been original enmsiiilnt to tfio VS. taaoth delay m tesung, saving appeal to tbe slateBoard of Ed- ickned,* MaJaory told tbe Oe^teeot of EducaOoo fa tt took ttat kmg iorNlgd to board alter DM vote. NoveBber, after scfaoot offl- show scbaol officials that be to . Robert lUDory.aI«o pledflad 1 foal this meeting was a dab agreed to tost Mgd Inde- to keep hit can Nigd out of shaft, "be said later. pendeottV, draft a plw to i' •taUory said be thinks tbe school, reOIe • comuUlat wttb M*> hth MfH' H racial stars and start a c delay was because Nigd is feeU£.DepartmeniofEduca- (bey nave not decided whether black. UOD ClvO loot* OUk*. aad to bring truancy charges Reidy said the Oantoowk In November, Reidy agreed battle the school district hi Mtfaiwcf Mallory, a commercial Valley School District, whieb to have Nigel tested by an inde- court If accessary. artist from Antrim. tadudes It auuflMostim New pendent clinical psychologist, a Mallory putted Nigel tram UaUory told the board that Hampshire towns, has J.M0 school psychologist and an edu- the fourth grade on Dee. 22, Relay's decision was "Improp- studeoU-Mallory said (hero are cational consultant uylng the boy was not being in- er and biased." He said the ste minority ddfakta hi DM dis- Reidy said he did not fed a tellectually challenged la his Issue was his son's Intellectual trict, but Reidy said he could grade promotion was required Wfr jl Srp i ijtaiiqj-atfrun but be also neither cooflnn nor deny that partly because the boy's math tendent Robert newly wsused raised the question of racial fore "without losklagIt op." skills were deemed average for to move the youngster op a Ai*~i-,i~.n~. f'fh^tng his ^ice placing Nigd into the hU age. No students have grade, saying Nigel*! educado- sonat laced **aodal«*tradsaa" aoboal system In the (aD of MM, skipped a grade since Reidy be- oi] needs could be served with- Otat caused ate to break out to lUtory has battled officials to caate superintendent in May out a move. a nervous rash. gat Ms son Into cither a hfcaher OH, be said. 492
CONCORD MONITOR, Saturday. January 3*, 1W7 Page 1 Oui, The People May Decide On Official Language
By BEN STOCKING Monitor Staff Writer A* Rep. Mildred Ingrain sees It, we naed to make English the nation1! off leial language because people too laty to warn English but eager to collect welfare have come to America. "Hie Pilgrims that came to Cbla country and founded It were English to the core," Ingram Mtd "They spoke English and they never dreamed there'd be anything elae spoken here." But Real Gilbert, prealdent of Action for Franco-Ameri- cana of the Northeast, said the English language proposal springs from Intolerance "What we're dealing with today Is prejudice, the most dangerous kind of prejudice because it Is wrapped In patriotism," Gilbert said. Ingram and Gilbert spoke yesterday at a legislative bear- ing on a resolution that asks the New Hampshire congres- sional delegation to support legislation designating Ffogifrfr as the official languageohhe United States. Rep. Roger Stewart of Lincoln, the sponsor of the resolu- tion, said the measure would help reduce unemployment and protect the national security. It Is essential that all servicemen be able to communicate In English, he said "I can't Imagine anything worse than CHPISTOfnflt CAftONCft/fttoritw Svff (SeeENGLISH—Page u) Rep. Roger Stewart of Linrui' •"•Miice* tha language bill 493
CHIirBTOfHe* OAMNEfl/MMlMt S»ff Ednapearl Parr, chairwoman of the State-Federal Relations Committee, speaks in favor of the bill. ENGLISH- (Continued From Ptge I) have no place in the nation which last Ebel said that if such an amendment year celebrated tbe 100th birthday of passes, election ballots won't include in- being in a foxhole where one Ihe Statue of Liberty. It likewise should structions in Spanish, Miranda rights speak* English and another speaks an- have no place in New Hampshire a will only be given In English and courts other language." state which claims to value liberty and won't be required to provide attorneys Furthermore, he said, "If we are treasure the rights of the individual." who speak any language but English. going to attack our unemployment At one point. Rep. Ednapearl Parr, "We are going to make ourselves a problem by Job training, people who are chairwoman of the State-Federal Rela- laughing stock In every civilised coun- being retrained must be able to speak tions Committee that is studying the tryin the worid," she said. the English language-" bill, asked foes of the measure why they Ebel said the resolution would send Speaking on behalf of Stewart's pro- thought voters in California passed a this message to Immigrants: 'You posal, Rep. Ingram suggested the fram- similar measure. cross these borders, you speak English. ers of the Constitution must be "whir- Rep. Theodore Cusson Sr. of Man- And If you don't, we don't want anything ling in their graves" to know that such a chester offered his opinion: the mea- to do with you . . resolution is necessary. sure was anti-Hispanic. "I think this resolution is a clear and "I don't think we in New Hampshire present danger to tbe multi-lingual, "Every immigrant that has come should be drawn into those types of bat- multiracial society that all of us are here for over 250 years has been glad to tles to be anti-anyone," Cusson said. "I part of," Ebei said. learn the language and help," she said. think that we have a lot more class here Paul Pare is the president of Voya- "It's a bunch of agitators lately who are in New Hampshire." too lazy to learn our language. They geurs, a Franco-American organization enjoy our economy . . . they enjoy our Claire Ebei, executive director of tbe in the Dover-Rochester area. When welfare system to foe hit. And if New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, Rep. Parr introduced him, she pro- they're too lazy to learn our language, said tbe resolution is "Insidious and tn- nounced his name to rhyme with tbe for that they can stay where they be- fruit long." "I think it is an affront to every one of Pare corrected her pronunciation; us whose parents or grandparents or the second syllabic is accented and Opponents of the measure cautioned great grandparents came to this coun- rhymes with hay. that it appeals to the worst In Ameri- try and spoke another language." Parr, who says she supports the reso- cans and is Just plain unnecessary. Opponents of the measure said It is lution because she is a "super patriot," "The proposed legislation is a (hrow- being supported by a national lobby suggested the French experts like Pare back to toe xenophobia and nativism of called U.S. English. They said the group would have to give her a lecwn In tbe late 19th century," said promotes a Constitutional amendment French pronunciation. ' : Ni " • to make English the country's official "If you pass this resolution," Pare re- language. plied, "we may not be able to." 494
H»W%DeWDemocrat, Dover,U.K. Setard«Momir* January )1,nt7 State/R eg i Foes attack language resolutio ByNORMALOVB Associated Press Writer CONCORD — Opponents of a legis- Call the move 'modern racism' lative resolution supporting making English the nation's official language on Friday called It "modern rac- ism." "We are deeply troubled by what we perceive as a rising intolerance in the nation," said Arnold.AlpetlftUhe Hex Hampshire American Friends The resolution urging New Hamp- shire's congressional delegation to support legislation to make English the official language "is the civilized side of modern American racism," Alpert told the House State-Federal Relation* Committee. He compared it to attempts by the Ku Klux Klan to stifle support for racial equality. Those who indicated opposition — either by speaking or in writing — outnumbered supporters 4-1 Supporters argued it is essential to national security and to ensure eco- nomic growth. Rep. Mildred Ingram, R-Ac worth, who supports the measure "ISO per- cent," said Immigrants who don't learn English "are a bunch of agita- tors too lazy to learn the language," "One o( the strengths of our coun- try was that we had a common lan- guage," ssid resolution sponsor, Rep Roger Stewart, R-Lincoln. "I'm in no way saying I don't want these people to speak foreign languages. But if they re part of this country and want its benefits, they should speak English too." Alpert said be Interpreted that to mean non-English speaking citizens shouldn't be allowed to vote. Stewart also said English-speaking workers arc necessary to economic growth and English must be a re- quirement for military service. "I can't imagine anything worse than being in a foxhole where one speaker is English and the other speaks another language," he said. But Rep. Theodore Cusson, D-Man- Chester, questioned why. after 200 Rap. Rogar Stewart, R-Uneoin, on Friday dlaeuaaaa hla raaolution to mate English tti years, the subject should arise. tion'a official language. Supporters aald auch a mova would anaura aeonomlc growth, "The Constitution of the United States makes no reference to lan- ealtad It "rnodarn reefem." (AP) guage whatsoever. The Constitution and the courts have consistently ruled that language la a matter of A proposed amendment to the U.S. Alpert urged the committee to dis- Constitution considered by the laat personal choice and should not be tinguish between eeooomtc rights legislated." he said. Congress would have been to restric- aid political rights. Immigrants who tive that It would "make us the Cussos said he resented the Impli- want to succeed eoonomleaQy moat Uughlngstock in every civilized cation that non-English speaking res- likely wfll lean KagUeh to survive, country in the world," Ebel said. idents "can't be productive members be aald. of society." When Rep. George Baker, D-Hud- "lot pruotem vrlth illiteracy ia a son, aald the national council of the "To imply those people are not . American Legion supports the move- productive members of society la, I tremendous problem whoee remedy ia In education, not this1 type of legis- meat "and who do we owe our free- think, the peak of arrogance/' Cm- doms to." committee member Rep. son said lation," be said... Richard Daschbach, D-Westmore- Cusson characterized California's Claire Ebel. executive director of land, reminded him that some Amer- adoption of English as Its official lan- the New Hampshire Civil Liberties ican revolutionaries spoke languagea guage as an ''anti-Hispanic move- Union, aald the solution might be In' other than English, requiring English competency from "What we're dealing with today to -'. duu't thick ne U. Ncs K;,mp- every Ugh school graduate In the ihire ahould Se drawn Into those preittdtee," aaid Real Gilbert, presi- United States. . dent of the Action for Franco-Ameri- types of battles to be anti-anyone," "This ia such an insidious eed In- he said. cans of the Northeast, "the most sulting piece of legislation," ab* dangerous kind of prejudice because Be said New Hampshire's highway saldT^'lrs an affront to everyone of It's wrapped In patriotism." welcome aims In English probably us whose parents or grandparents would be illegal If Congress made came from another country." English the official language. Ebel and others warned the com- CUMOO argued that "a patriotic mittee that the resolution gave the spirit, love of country and a little state's eoogreaaional delegation satrlflee" promote national unity, blind support since no federal pro- not language. posal waa before them. 495
[Portsmouth Herald, Jan. 31, 1987, Page 1]
Modern racism charged CONCORD, N.H. *y SIEVE OKOTAK country and spoke a different lan- tive, approved last November, courage English. "I can't imagine ing me and my wife and my chil- guage." which requires that state govern- anything worse than being in a fox- dren dot we are second-class CONCORD - A N.H. resolution Pointing to recent race-related ment conduct its business tn En- hole with someone who sneaks En- citizens," he said. that would encourage Congress to incidents in Georgia and New gush. glish and another whodoesn't " Qwtthm* over the unclear im- make Engbsh the uttaa's official York, activist Arnold Abjert said Opponents far outnumbered sup- Rep. Mildred Ingram, R-Ac- pact of the resolution were lightly language was attacked Friday by the bin reflects a "rising tide of In- porters of the N JI. proposal. worth, said she had no quarrel with addressed in an rrOmnge between the state's Fraeo-Ainerieaa com- tolerance" across the nation. "The Rep. Roger Stewart, R-Lincoln, new citizens who learn the lan- Pare and Rep. Krinaprarl Parr, II- munity as bigoted and tm-ABKrt- bUI before you today . ts the civi- sponsor of tbe non-binding propo- guage, but complained about "a Hynp*Div who chaired the hear- cao lized side of American racism." sal, said the resolution is not aimed bunch of agitators who are too lazy at outlawing tbe use of foreign lan- to team our language " "You French-speaking people "What we are dealing with lossy The resolntkw, which was heard guages or bilingual education. Rep. George Baker, D-Hudson, are going to have to give us a les- Is prejudice-Tbe most dangerous by a House committee, urges the read a statement from the Ameri- son in French pronunciation." kind of prejudice because It b Legislature state's congressional delegation to "In no way are we saying we can Legion in support of efforts to Parr said after struggling with sev- wrapped in patriotism," said Re* support legislation to designate dont want these people speakmg tioo'; diverse ethnic heritage and a designate English tbe official lan- eral names. P. Gilbert, president of Action For English as the official language of the French language," Stewart guage. "Let's face it, it's to Franco-Americans of the Nortb- sign of what they called die na- the United States. Tbe proposal said. "But I fed if they are going to "Well, if you pass this resolution, UOB". growing urteterance. everyone's benefit to learn the En- states an official language would enjoy the benefits of being a cut glish language." we may ant be able to." Pare re- •1 ils is so* an insidious and to-encourage "uniformity (and) pre- ten, they should know English as Clvll libertarians and snltii« piece of legislation," said serve national unity." However, Paul Pare of Roches- taUves of the state's «5.**J resi- CUireBtMi of the N.H. CM! Liber- wen- ter said recognition of English as The committee is expected to dents o( Frenca descent criUctxed ties Union. "It is an affront to Tbe proposal is similar to Cali- Stewart saul it is in the country's tbe official language would ignore vote on the resolution in early Feb- the proposal as Insulting to the aa- every one of us who came to this fornia's English language initia- national security interests to en- his cultural heritage. -'You're tell- ruary. 499 •-CONCORD MONITOR, Thursday, February U, 1W7 jjChandler BUI Would Ban Gays From Givin^Blopd 8y MICHAEL MOKRZYCM "Another amendment might be to {AssoclatodPress Writer allow a homosexual todonat e wood if he donates all of it," Chandler added. "If ' A Ull that would make it a felony for he wanted to give all Ms blood, boy, I'd homosexuals to donate blood has been bewQUngtoleThim." Renounced by health and civil rights Marcus Hum of the New Hampshire representatives as irrational, ignorant, Cttbeof' Alliance for Gay and Lesbian unnecessary, unconstitutional and hate- Rights said the bOl is''part of a cycle of Ignorance, bate and irrational legis- f The American Red Cross, a bomosex- lation, followed by more ignorance, gkd-rigbts group, the state ClvD Liber- bate and Irrational &-!•>•••— ~< nes Union and state health officials arged the Senate Judiciary Committee JO reject the bill at a bearing yesterday. given Sen. Chandler's suggestion Sen. John Chandler,,the bill's we suspend the laws agajnsT suicide" r, told tbe oonSlHee he wanted, Hum Sen. John P.H. Chandler ire that New Hampshire's blood The Mil leaves out «tber groups at ris not contaminated by thedead- high risk of having AIDS, Including he- "At least this gay man knows what's tase AIDS, which is known to be mophfllacs, Intravenous drug users and going on," Hun said.,"We have lots of spread by shared Itttarvenous needles, heterosexuals who have had contact peopbwalkittgaroundwhodon't.'' • jwood transfusions and sexual contact. , withprostltutoB,HurnsaJd. . . , , • Hiirn also complained that the bOl 'Chandler, of Warner, acknowledged would prohibi i(t lesbians iron donating, L-A, determining whether a person is' , Dr. Mfle* McCue, associate medical blood,, when you win not find safer losexualcouM be difficult, and said director of the American Bed Cross for 1 i.fiew Hampshire and Vermont, noted imt** thjtft tttun ifrfriaMM ^nft* (KCH n 1i would not opposf e amending hi* bill that medical .experts now .agree" that that only *»A6 ' "anyone In thl* country who is sexually would bjv homosexual men'from donat* •acttvejsatrisk:';: .; ..•-"•: , /Owttouecf From PageB-l) ,. < dal form that'.'allows them to saVe \ •' ' . - , face, |f need be," by lndkatihg whether' ting blood Jolejy for experiments and re- their blood should be used for' fransfu- iseircbonAIDS. tkms.McCuesald. 3«ireEbel of, the New H Finally, every unit of bttod' Iscbeck- Ujgidr ed, using a test with at lea* " -'--'-•--• j-mosexualc itmosowaland 500 While Ike nearly all-white Legislature meets in Concord (above), United Parcel Service employee Rodney Prim delivers packages to Manchester There are 4.66S blacks in New Hampshire, according to Ibe lalesl censu. ... «£ The shadow of racism in New England Prejudice a subtle force in New Hampshire Tbe racist leehng expressed during re- cent events in Forsylh County Aad < Sbtiln- crn voice and inflection, shaped m part by people the majority livir, the history and culture ol that county But seacoast and in the counti racism is not a Southern or even a regional sachusetu In northernmo phenomenon Todars is the second ot three* forested land the sue o arooks, reported irom Forsvth County. New there are enly five Marks Haapihire and Ohio exploring the New Hampshire has no black I ol white bias in America and then laker it ™.bcr *- —~ ByMikeCkmttmai i Then trooper, but he recently quit Pmatc clubs, long the backbone of the states social life, MANCHESTER. NH -B, midafter- remain white Many schoolchildren have noon, the temperature was sinking toward never seen a black person on the street aro as a still breeze swept down the valley of tbe Mernmack River, wkere the city lay beneath its masonry of snow Inside a pri- self as a place attractive to minorities said vate club on treeless Maple Street, a half- Lionel Johnson the M vear-old president of dozen thick-set men sat in wooden chairs Groceries to hand, a Manchester woman walks away Inm Ike St. Marlefarish Cath- and watched a televised boxing match be- olic cnorch. Tbe land was settled by people ol Scotch-Irish slock. himself an emigrant two detades ago from tween a black man and a white Both boxers Louisiana were arm weary but the white man threw a Lying at 'he opposite end of the same combination and the black went down mountain range New Hampshire shares with heavily He j out1 He j out " the men in the "Then it got cold." he said, and they North Georgia a common heritage and phi chairs shouted jabbing the air and pounding losophy - a land settled bv fiercely inde- each other on the shoulders From the northern reaches of Maine pendent frugal conservatue people ol t the edge of the bar.. two middle-aged Mgh the Green Mountains of Vermont Scotch Irish stock < in swl bunchebnched over gglasses of Ih* o^lryop l New England ,ses«,l,ally :.llls beer Both were bom and aised i NNew black Deo. - all-white Hampshire The younger of the t i had a pie had settled in fcy lieard 10 000 blacbla k residents , BIAS, /'.«. 501 s IN AMIMCA 39-454—91 17 10 THE UNION UAOER, MANCHESTER, N.H. — Thursday, August 20, 1987 Sen. Chandler Admits Racial Joke ByTIMSANDLER joke and denied the humor was ades. yesterday in The Concord Mon- United Press Interaatitmal racially motivated. Chandler told the Jackson itor, Chandler said Jackson an- CONCORD — A veteran Re- Chandler, who is white, was joke Tuesday night at the Mer- noyed him during the 1964 New publican state legislator ac- q uick to repeat the joke: rimack County Republican As- Hampshire primary by kissing knowledged yesterday that he r*^"Jesse Jackson has stopped sociation meeting and over the a teenage white girl in public. had told a racial joke about j running for President because weekend at traditional town "I don't like race mixing." Jesse Jackson at recent public j it was found out that his grand- celebrations in Salisbury, Web- Chandler told The Monitor. "It functions but played down the I mother had posed for the ster and Henniker. He said the was repulsive I almost threw remark as a mere "political \ centerfold of National Geo- joke is no different from any up." joke," ! graphic". other. Chandler, in an - interview Sen. John HP. Chandler Jr., '—Known as "Happy Jack," "All jokes are racist jokes with UPI, pointed to Jackson's 76. said the joke about the like- Chandler has called slain civil because all jokes are about 1984 "hymietown" comment, a ly 1988 Democratic Presiden- rights leader Martin Luther people and all people belong to derogatory term to refer to tial candidate has drawn sub- King Jr. an "evil man" and has one race or another," Chandler New York City's large Jewish stantial laughter from his New suggested homosexuals be al- told United Press International population. Hampshire audiences. He de- lowed to donate blood only if in a-telephone interview from "If he,can dish it out, he fended bis remarks, saying he they give all of it. His career in his Warner home should be able to take it," was simply repeating a good state politics spans five dec- ' But in an interview published Chandler said. on Jacksoif Chandler said he was not sin- County chairman for Rep. JajS liter was referring to the magazine's gling out Jackson for his race iphs of primitive cultures in different Kemp's GOP presidential eafflS the world, in which women and men and would poke fun at the other paign. Kemp's New HampshjK {wared nearly naked. candidates, given the opportu- campaign director quickly dwj dJer said In an interview after the nity. tanced the campaign fi«M ; that he heard the joke over toe week- "It's a political joke," Chan- Chandler's statement. ££? ; didnt recall who passed it on to him. dler said. "If I heard a joke he told the joke at "Old Home Day" about about (Vice President "Senator Chandler's Qg a Salisbury, Webster and Henniker. George) Bush or (Senate Re- dorsement means he agrqs e, he reported getting laughs. Among publican leader Robert) Dole or with what Jack Kemp stann e at the county Republican association any of them that I thought was for, it doesn't mean Jack Keats tt, the response was tepid, but for one agrees with Jack ChandlecXT w quipped in response, "You'll never funny, I would repeat it." e black vote in FranUta." Asked if he would continue to Paul Young said idler is chairman of the association, a repeat the joke, Chandler said, Rep. Linda Long, D-N; ative group that broke away from the "I will until I hear a new one. the state's only black la' ack County Republican Committee. At Do you know any? '* er and a Jackson of 76, he has been in and out of state Chandler, a six-term senator, supporter, said Chan, in the House, Senate and Executive is the honorary Merrimack comments are not , since the 1940s. 503 A12 — CONCORDMOMTOR. Thursday, August 20,1M? CHANDLER Chandler Continued From Page A-l marks that have generated much publicity. During last year's legisla- stories about them this morning. tive session, he said he wouldn't Chandler *m May that ae baan't mind letting homosexuals give blood, Says He's received my cxttMam etoee the art*» despite the AIDS epidemic — as long He said be went to a dinner last as they exhausted their entire sup- nigbt hosted by one of the organiza- ply. tions in his district, and nobody criti- Asked U he could understand why Not Racist cized his comments. (Chandler some people found bis Jackson joke wouldn't name the group because he offensive. Chandler replied, "There's By BEN STOCKING didn't want to "drag them into millions of people. Everybody's got Monitor Staff Writer this.") their rights and their own ideas. And About 25 people attended the din- If they don't agree with mine, I re- Sen. Jack Chandler says he's not ner, Chandler said, and about half of spect them for what they believe in, a racist, even though he told a joke them made supportive comments. within certain limitations. . making fun of Jesse Jackson's race "They thought that the media was "I don't think everybody agrees and later said be was sickened when making a mountain out of a mole- with everything God said. You just be saw Jackson kiss a white girl. hill," he said. can't please all the people all the "I'm not a racist," Chandler said The people he talked with thought time." after listing 10 black organizations to the joke was funny, Chandler said. Chandler said he expects to hear which he said he bas donated money In a telephone interview this from some constituents who disagree over the years. They included the morning. Chandler explained why he with his comments. But be agrees National Association for the Ad- doesn't consider himself a racist, de- with the people he talked to at dinner vancement of Colored People, the spite the joke. last night: His remarks have been United Negro College Fund and the All jokes are racist, Chandler blown out of proportion. Black Silent Majority Committee, a said. "Most jokes refer to some peo- "I don't see why a little )oke conservative group. ple," he said. "All people belong to would create such a big stir," be Chandler said he gave most of the one race or another." said "It's like all the vultures are groups $10 or $20 a year, and has There are jokes about Italians, pouncing on me, the media vul- been giving to some for up to 25 Jews, Poles, and the Irish, he said; tures." years. there are jokes about all kinds of Yesterday, a spokeswoman for Chandler's joke goes like this: It people. Jackson said the candidate would seems Jackson has abandoned the "They haven't made too much of probably decline to dignify Chand- race for the Democratic presidential a hullabaloo about it. . . I think it's ler's comments with a response. A nomination. "He dropped out be- a certain form of folklore humor, you spokesman for the presidential cam- cause they found out that his grand- might say." paign of U.S. Rep Jack Kemp, for mother bad posed for the centerfold Worldwide, Chandler said, the whom Chandler serves as honorary of National Geographic magazine." white race is in the minority "I just Merrtmack County chairman, repu- He was referring to the maga- point that out because sometimes diated (he remarks, but not the man itne's photographs of primitive cul- people are claiming the minority is This morning,. Lionel Johnson, tures around the world, In which men the one who is being picked on or chairman of the Manchester chapter and women have appeared nearly something." of the NAACP, said Chandler's re- naked. Chandler was asked why he found marks were ignorant and unworthy oufler utA t» JOB* at o» mar- it so upsetting that Jackson had of comment He said Chandler can't kissed a white girl. "It's a kind of a present himself as a friend of blacks gut reaction," he said. on the one hand, and crack racial "I don't like It," be continued jokes on the other. "There's things in life that I like, and Chandler said he donated money things in life that I don't like. And I to the national NAACP organization, can't necessarily give a logical ex- as well as the Rural Farmers Coop, planation for them all. It's just the an Alabama group that helps poor way I feel." black farmers. Some people prefer Coke and oth- "In a way, we could commend Yesterday, the Monitor ran a ers like Pepsi, be said. "You can't al- him for giving the money," Johnson front-page story on Chandler's re- ways explain It." said. "But we haven't seen any of it. marks, and other papers ran wire A Warner Republican, Chandler We're the local chapter. is 76. He has served off and on in "I would gladly accept some of SeeCHANDLER -PageA-12 state politics since the 1940s, in the his money instead of sending it all House, the Senate and on the Execu- the way to Alabama," be said "We tive Council. He bas made other re- could put it to good use." CONCORD(J)MONITOR '•rWy, AugusAt t »11W. > Chandler's Constituents Are Willing To Forgive And Forget BtJAYHERWIN eomwraaltous with more than SO people Later, diandler elaborated to a reporter as an old man of 76, maybe entitled to tie a ifhesayslL" aodHOLLYIDELSON among uw 15 towis be represents. It would aboutUsdoaatat ttestgbtof Jackson bus- character. Fetdbhan disapproval of racial SaitorSlalimtn appear that few snpporten wen baiteg aec- sing the cheek of a while gM at a campaign Chandler tares.enough tolen d a stream WAeailJMBM and thoughts about giving him an eighth event "I dent Bfce race mixing." he ex- ol cards and dippings to waailteMta. Andhe MMMB^^MH^ tOL^ plained, spends eragh of Ms own money at «tocUon dgUMMl those whs donn tend to t Chrndter ocaaries the rightmoet end of Ham of Chaaofcr-i constitueDts thou^t Sne - a» much a» K> tima more than hb 5E»7™?_S™S& "** ^ J UM.u»«WMa«»»MJU,^iNttu.«,« OieRepdbUcaaspecti^SoTO the^me5a w«s nu*fcy too much CHANDLER CoaUauml From Page A-l from the hip by the man who appears let of to have their p«non«I Interests at 5SES* " pe0P" Wh° d°0>t •*"" "^F-ople think of him a. a god. I OSW like. Chandler liGwrgt FJ^£S$'%!"2S? Gulmond, who UMd to rent roomi rrnm Mm in Wiraar Ha thouoht sonal giving to th» poor had roora than made up torth e occasional to- discretion, "it don't hotter me." A Joke like Chandler's wouldn't mlllar presence. They had never have raited a fnu yean ago, he Mid. heard of him, or vaguely knew the "This day and age you really have to name. be careful." Edward Dillon, who had Mated But othen find that on racial mat- himself behind a table at Nalib'i, ten, New Hampihlre'i nearly all- knew of Chandler, but couldn't elabo- whlte culture can atin be like a lock- rate beyond the general approval he er room where people talk more tree- had beard from others. Andthat was ly. enough for him. "In New Hampshire people think "I don't delve Into politic*," pu- tney can make ethnic slurs and get ion Mid. "What happen, up In the away with It became there are not state House doesn't really bother very many minorities," said Patti me." Albano, an active Democrat In War- But many who follow the politics ner, Chandler's hometown. "It's kind of the Senate and their senator tend of a sate remark here." to approve. "Whatever I've read And Chandler himself has at- about him, I favor," said Bob Munra, turned a certain permission for doing who owns the Awinco window and things bU way. door business in Weare. In the Senate be can close bis eyes The Joke was an exception. But a for several minutes of business, re- Jokt is a Joke, not to be held seriously submit bills that have lost in session against anyone, Munra suggested, after session, seek lower state Uceas- since almost any questionable Joke kg standards at the request of a sin- can rouse a laugh at drat. "If we all gle constituent trying to transfer his sat down and scrutinized, every Joke outof-atate embalming practice to we told or listened to for Its moral New Hampshire, and warn that plac- significance they wouldn't be fun- Ing foster children In homosexual ny." homes "1« like putting a pound of Kevin Harvey, who teaches Eng- roast beef Ins cage with a lion." Ush «t New England College in Hen- Supporters prefer to dwell on nlker, had heard the Joke a week Chandler's activity In local affairs. ago, days before Chandler began re- "I like him," said Barbara taMngTt. To him It sounded racist In Merullo, a waitress at Norm's Place public, harmless In private. '"That's ta **«" When a flood damaged really the way people speak. They her land, Merullo wrote to Chandler donTmean anything negative.'' and got a detailed reply about where Harvey agreed tat part with she could find help. "1 think he's con- Chandler's subsequent (Men*, that cerned." Jackson had uttered worse In the He can be so accessible that coo- 1984 campaign when be spoke of atltuenta need not seek him out. If Jews as "Hymies" and New York as you live in Antrim, Belmont, Ben- "Hymietown." nlngton, Botcawen, Bradford, Deer- '-But people looked the other way Ing, Franklin, Henniker, HflUboro, dearly because a Wack liberal poHtl- Northflew Salisbury, Warner, dan made the remark," Harvey Weare, Webster or Windsor, chances said. "You hesitate tona n this down, are Chandler knows what's happen- you sound like a reactionary nut to Ing In your life. say these things, (but) we've got a Friend or toe, If you live In those double standard here. We clearly communities-his district —you get do." a card for a death or birth m me Others offered up their own ethnic family, a dipping when your name stock for ridicule, as appeasement to or business appears In the newspa- tnetargetoofCbandle?sglbes. per.apersonalreplytoyourletter. "I'm half Polish. You got a Polish Even those who oppose Chandler Joke?" asked Ron Forster, who owns remembertbaeegesturce. Poodle's pisxa parlor In HUlsboro. "Definitely I appreciate It," said -I'd listen to It We all have to laugh AbdeUalit NaJIb, who owns Najlb's at ourselves a little." pirn parlor in HiUsboro. "But I David Currier, a Hemlker select- don't like his views. I dent share it man, said sure, but hi private, "it's stall." really weird. I can't befleve the man When he tries to deftoe Chandler's says these things in public." sometimes extremist creed, the first currier, whocnaUenged Chandler thing that comes to Najlb's mind Is; m a Republican primary last year, "Racism. Die birthday of (Martin saM he would soon announce another Luther) King, you remember what run at him for IMS. hetald?" "More and more people are tak- Cnandler spoke against a bill to ing notice of this ttmg," Currier establish a state-wide holiday in said. "This year's lingers are going memory of King, dting KWs tooomebaektobauntnlm." friendships with known or suspected If so, no specter It likely to bang communists. Chandler called htan over the American Legion post In "M «^ nan. u Immoral man." HUlsboro, where Ralph Tuongo Mid And NaJIb is still shocked. "If be be- over late afternoonoeers, "he's al- lieves in God, and he's a Christian, ways welcome here as far at I'm be shouldn't say anything like that concerned." about a reverend who was leading If Chandler's funnies offend any- people." one, Luongo suggested they oonsM- Najlb thought other constituents er: "fiusTTNewHampsbire. Take it might be only dimly aware of shots the way you want to." 506 CONCORD MON! TO ft, Saturda y • August 22,1987 — \ 9 Chandler: resign Jack Chandler's Latest outrage must be answered. His blatant rac- ism is not only a disgrace and em- barrassment to the constituents he (theoretically) represents, but also to the state of New Hampshire. His 'repulsion" of a black man kissing a white girl and his disbe- lief in "race mixing" reeks of pre- Civil War bigotry and is in concert with the thinking of members of present-day racist organizations such as the Order and the Ku Klux Klan. I disassociate myself from my "'representative," as I'm sure all civil people do, and respectfully . suggest that he excuse himself from public office His credibility as an effective senator was dis- missed years ago by his peers, and znw be bas exposed to the rest of us his totallac k of human decency. Barring his own resignation, at best should be soundly defeated in any future attempts to hold any po- sition that allows bun to represent more than just himself. SUSAN McKEVITT Bradford Mistaken belief I think it is very sad that a man like Jack Chandler represents New Hampshire. He perpetuates the mistaken belief that people from this state are ignorant and back- wards. He is a racist — nothing more, nothing less. If Jack Kemp really opposes Chandler's statements, let's see some action — replace him as hon- orary chairman. SUSAN SEIDNER Pembroke Letters seem to me to have much to worry Open your mind Natural mindset about. ALLISON CALDWELL Sen. Jack Chandler is lucky News headline: Chandler's Con- Pembroke he's a small fisb. Otherwise he stituents Are Willing To Forgive would have been cleaned and fried and Forget Editorial: Repugnant for his visionless and ignorant re- remarks. From your paper's The air is free marks regarding the Rev. Jesse script today (Aug. 21) it would Jackson. seem your editorial staff is rather Do you have a small sailboat, Nobody else was willing to dig- angry and frustrated over Sen. such as a Sunfish, or are you a nify those comments with any sort Jack Chandler's comments about wind-surfer? If the answer is yes, of reply. The senator should have Jesse Jackson. It would seem to you know the feeling of freedom followed suit, rather than trying to me the nature of your anger and that comes when you move with cover his obviously bigoted com- frustration is your inability to set- the wind. ments with such shallow reasoning tle into the basic and natural mind- But did you know that the wind as "I think it's a certain form of set of the predominantly white isn't free in New Hampshire? Any folklore humor, you might say." public of the state of New Hamp- sailboat, or sailboard, that is 12 You might say a lot of things, sen- shire, and of New England in gen- feet or larger must have a New ator, but you probably ought to eral. Hampshire license each year. The stop before you get any more feet If the general feeling bothers fine for not having the New Hamp- in your mouth. the staff of the Concord Monitor so shire decal license is $44. In a state If you were blind and a friend much, all I can say Is you better where the slogan is "Live Free or had described the occasion of Jes- get used to it. Because unless we Die," it seems ironic that one must se Jackson giving a 9-year-old girl get a mass migration of colored pay for using the wind. a kiss, without mentioning the skin stock, you're not likely to see any If you, too, feel that licensing color of either, would you have great change in the public attitude small boats and boards, which use 00 found it 'repulsive"? I sincerely regarding ethnic jokes, especially only the wind to propel them, is hope you will be able to open your involving blacks. wrong, then let's start writing our eyes and your mind to the oneness Now personally, I found Jack's state representatives today to get of humanity. joke interesting but I've heard and this law changed, and restore the laughed at better. What I think is meaning of "free" in New Hamp- GEOFFREY G. MARTIN that there are a lot of hypocrites shire. out there that are afraid of being JOA.VLAMSON Penaoook called "bigots." You liberals don't New London administrators. There are less than a dozen black professors, though the proportion of Hack staff members is pnbabh- better. "But what* University Plans D4— "better" than one tenth of one percent?" Thomas said. "Most people who are educated win admit Against that it reau> diminishes the whole educational Policy Changes experience of students to Eve in such a RACISM mronmenf JL s *i state uuivuitity, the University of New CpaOaaedFnaPageD-l csnsethea-skin is Black, are (, _ and keeping black students, facufcy, ii HamMhireBpiiinittiJyobfi^ted to admit be sharing nry concerns, or that t staff and administrators poses a problem UNH JL ^kNew Haunpshtre (estdcntSf ociu z perceox or becsBVC Fvc resd, concents would be dMBrant from any says it is trying tocomba t (see sidebar). wbom belong to tHinorities. All nunonUes, however, and became of people «Wve influ- other students on the campus who "Because we're such a white state, it's easy to receive pi efaeiitial treatment in the sense that enced aae "feokno^ ££IVe new are here tostud y anddrU," she meet the letter of the law," Thomas said. -*e UNH reviews their appBcatioos as though they been in the best CK btocfc cwtturft. said, a hard edge tohe r words. want tob e aggressive in our actions. We don't were in-state candidates. She admits she cannot say what ifs She «oce asked a member of the A Wall Thisyear, the admissions office in Durham want to just meet the guJdeanes." KketobecufturanyblackatiJNH,but Unto to explain What the group received 188 minority applications. Forty of those Stan Fish, dean of admission, said more she notes, T do know what aVsae to mejwit to Bin. He oouttf not. By com* students enrolled at September; seven were Hack. be black." parisosi. Cam" said. 1 could teByo u Wacfa would enrol at UNH if more blacks were UNH has always sought minority students, said hired. In urdei far minority students to come to Last spring, hi aa effort tocreat e a with urgency. If that doesn't cone off At UNH, Blacks Dean of Admissions Stan Fish, but such efforts the topo f your head or yon doot the mJmsity arid fee) posaive and successful," have found tittle success. The retention rate of black presence an campus. Cam* Fish said, "they need the support of a large helped farad the Black Student think of It as ssmeomg that merits Mack stedents-^ wen beiow the general university urgert_attentioo,thenlc«rtkaowif minority population within the community, and retention or sndDfitton lute,* he ssid. Ffeced with Unfao, which was metah- a support Cope With Racism that population needs to include faculty, group then. Members hope to work our priorities we tbe SUM." the isolation of being a mktority student, some drop Carpenter came to UNH from administrators and staff who are minority out even when they are doing well academically. more as activists this year, hot a re- persons." cent meetmg revealed a spat m their New York CSty. He is a Jnbr major- By LESLJE ROBINSON UNH ofcrs three scholarship programs, one 4wi« «• ktHMH a 1 i iTnf all if i II •• _ F«r The Monitor The few Mack teachers «t the school often for Hispanks, one fur blacks and one for fa- BE m ranBa TimTffllWMIIi. Win • find themselves besieged by minority students -My foundation for startag this eager to share their ideas. One former member was anger," Carroll said to the lew member of the basketball team. Be ebecca Carrol is no stranger to all- of his department. Fish said, felt obliged to act as The unrtei lity wants toimprov e the wf inucitt who renamed after the admitted mat if he weren't htock, white schools. She was me of three a role model for black students. They sought representation of Uacks among faculty, staff and meeting. That dwUiaflnn disheart- t'tmiccs ace he wvuldn'lbe ssvatved blacks at Kearsarge Wgh School, and him out in such numbers tor support that it Brhniwfateators, says Stephanie Thomas, registrar ened Keith Carpenter, who respond- m an activist group. Td probaDrr be fee MtybUckdurmg her first eight really became very difficult (or him tofe d he and special assistant to the president, ftha s no full- ed that, todra w more people into the happy with Just baskefharfand school Ryean of education. Her adoptive time affirmative action officer, but plans to hire and partying, fike eveiyoue eke," be could meet their expectations,'' ftsh said. Union, the group needed to plan parents and natural mother, with whom she is one, Thomas said. For now, several employees some fun activities. said. dose, are white. So are her two sWings. share the job. He has been aware of 'H"" on SOI, Carroll cannot reconcile herself to the To Carrol, the purpose of the cjiiiiwn, but Tve been prethr wi>M* DDD The school will soon implement new guidelines Union was primarfly poitical, not so- feeling (be has as a black student at the for hiring anrnrily teachers. When a department sitting back and accepting itTHe said University of New Hampshire. After three cial. There are UHK%, she said during he could have accepted it for four CarroS felt the benefit of having even one with low representation of minorities and women that divisive meeting, when she semesters there, she is Wring Hie school, black professor. Lester Fisher and his Afro- has an opening, advertisements to fin the vacancy years and stiB been happy. planning to take the spring semester off and would not recommend UNH to a sin- •Now that ra fath e Union, Tin Amencan literature class had a major impact on wffisay: "Women and nduatnes encouraged to gle black person. "Are yon trying to transfer next fcfl. One Made w ofcssot, who made her. "The literature we read and the thoughts appfy." AB tenure-track search committees wiH not gauss so bomb sometsiDft** be lxried "celebratory" aboutWbbckaess, start thissoyou won't feel that way?" said with a laugh. "I may not be as and teefings that were elicited from me - it was have an affirmative-action advocate. another student asked her wasn't reason enough tostar . Nor was the Black an awakening tor roe," she said. "That class and Thomas abophms toinstruc t departments angry as Rebecca is. Whereas Fve Student Union, the group she helped form last Les gave me a toto f inspiration. He made roe Tm trying to start mis so you Bved in a black coJtare, she hasnt. about bow toactivel y recruit women and wont feel mat way," she answered. 1 8 to confront the university'* great racial feel ake I did as a chad, real celebratory about minorities. The University of New Hampshire has rm not saying she * less black than being black, and different" The opposing visions within the me, or rm less black than she is. to be aggressive. Union caught Carroll by surprise. By "What saddens me most about this university Much of Carroffs perspective comes from "You've got toge t on the phone and can ...She should be m charge ofthe • the students haw no qualms about teaming in 8 the next day, she was rrtnaiiaig her tough stuff, audl should be m charge growing up with white siAngs and attending msBtunoos, she said. "Pass the word on. That's role as leader. "My big error is to as- this unhealthy environment," Carroll said. while schools. Tve been in the limefight rve what being aggressive is." of having the parties. That's me a sume the other black students, be- wry. I go i Despite awareness among administrators, the gotten some maeage out of (being black). Fve Racial donate may not be the oiuy thing number of blacks at UNH remains very low. The been a token," she said. CarroUbeheves most recent statistics available are from the faB tokenism is "completely detrimental to your of lHt; but admMstrators say they have growth in the long run." research money combine to make up a package. changed fitfle snce. That semester, UNH had She cafe herself "cutturafly white and UNH, Thomas said, ^ust cant compete in that IJOK undergraduates. Of these, S7 were black. cosmetkaBy black. I can speak on black culture arena." Stephanie Thomas, a registrar who reports on affirmative action, said UNH has no black See RACISM - Page IM - Leslie Robtesw aropnd. Sort of the comic relict" me?" agreed that ignorance is the root of implicit way with respect to diver dut Carpenter said be enjoys She would like to see white stu- much racism. He refers to tbe large- ty. bNH. Tw bad la," he nxL 1 OK tt dents "«* be afraid to think a Bttle scale ignorance that continues to vic- Carroll said she cant stay at Iff bertlstatbekkfaalot" bit otter that wfcafs acceptable, rd timize many peonle in oar culture." _ Cariol has « afferent view. UNH until that ideal is realized. After tl Bee them to take some risks. Td Bte Although be has encountered bla- year, she plans to transfer - hopefu stvdenis, rile lid. in "provKClaL them to led at ease taking risks, rd tant racism from store t'lyfr^ and 1 to Brown University in Pronaen HKrBBCE, GMmnaoie, KlnDVOlVeQ. HDB them to be cpcp-Bflandgd. * even from repairmen Jn his own Ri Money will be a actor in her ( She tees tbe students a* yomg peo- As she makes these demands, home, hebeones "the college com- dskn; she was on full scholarship pie eager IUUWJ io leei cnDnraue Carrol reaSces she must not seem munity is much more «"av»i» Guys UNH. •o icbool and make money after- Bee an avenge Hyew-oM. She has get drank, ihey yeD Bangs. KB often Tm leaving because Iknowwi narti.'ttejrthtak.-They got tt made ti that sne no loittEer has an ac- woroc on cunpus IKCSQSC tiberc'i A New Hampshire is. I do not fed I it the shade," Carol said. "Why ted concern wftti appearance lugh level of rudeness, flbe gtiidenta) comfort that the students here wwkl you rat to dote that? I fed have a general disrespect for other nor do I aspire to it." tad far them. 1 fed Bte tbeyVe nbs- ^ other blacha at the mnvexsi* people. When you have thai kind of CoBege, she said, should be a hr who speak abort radem an older environment, those people who ire to take risks and be curious. "Flowi 5^«- __ __ than her. Valerie CamnBgham. for «- obnousfr different become tbe ob- mg rhododendrons sttd babbli CsnoVs dSerences wftb ether asapfe, is aa adDBBhn^esecntary jects of frustration." brooks is not enough for me. Iapn studeats surface aside aad outside of in coupsejeg and testing, bora and An ideal UNH, Fisher said, would um m ra M< date what this university has to off tins. 2B tuo rcocst ^f^x ^ *^w her *s ^ H yurftiiywflt ^*ft subtle rac- have womeu m tbe admmistnAion s but ifs not enough." views of worta by Mack authors were ism she encounters Is of the stereo- top ranks, and ^people of nunority ex- at (fired odds *fth those of the test of typical variety, when people assume perience all throughout tbe dBereat LesBe Robinson is a graduate si the das. In empariag the pbaoco- she voted for Jesse Jackson, or that (unctions of the university, so that in dent at the University ef New Han pfaia of iMi-centay Sack acMsts she is Baptist the daily encounters certain experi- shirt Booker T. WaddBgkm and WXB. 1 Just hare learned to not pay too ences would be available in the most DuBoo^ews appaOed at how tbe much attention to that," Cunmngbam disc enfancod WuhingttiTi'w Undc said Sometimes she jokes to expose ToBiiw mkXL Some cbss ncoribcrs thecBensegeouy. 1 realize thesere- I leemed to accept the notion tt«t, to marks are made out of ignorance." 'F.clowering 'uti irrrr • illf •minfi. a Mack Hsber, tbe bbek professor who I cpeaker oust ndts •« to then." taught CaxToftTs bterature class, rhododendrons and Cam* Hid sbehedtates to put bercbamates down. "I know that all babbling brooks is not they know is a white perspective," the aid. "(But) it makes me fed Kke enough for me. I o I'm in a tune watp, the wrong decade. CD And then yon wonder, Is it just appreciate what this university has to offer, but it's not enough.' - Rebecca Carroll 510 Union Leader There is nothing so powerful as truth" - DANIEL WEBSTER JKANCHESTHt, IUL, HBOAY. NIUCH », 19«9 King Holiday Defeated Again By DONN TIBBETTS State H«use Burea* Chief CONCORD — Although pro- -KING •ponents claimed growing (Continued from Page One) grassroots support, a bill to have Long, D-Nashua, complained of Mew Hampshire celebrate the Gregg said he would not oppose birthdate of Martin Luther King receiving mail "telling me to go a King birthday observance if it with a holiday sustained one of back to hell where I came from, were held on a Sunday. its worst defeats in 10 years but I'm staying here." MacDon- This month 1,523 of 1,706 yesterday. ald assured her "that the House readers responding to a poll by has the highest esteem for you, The Union Leader and New A move to overturn an ad- but every member of this House Hampshire Sunday News were verse committee report and has no respect for anyone who substitute ought-to-pass gar- opposed to the King holiday nered only 89 votes in the House sends out mail like that." effort. with 2S5 representatives op- Rep. Jacquelyn Domaingue, "We will keep trying to pass posed. Moments later the bill R-Manchester, told of service- this bill as long as it takes," said was killed via voice vote. men giving their lives for the Arnie Alpert who helped coordi- The nearly 3-1 majority re- U.S. flag "with a sense of honor" nate the King holiday effort this fused to dump New Hampshire's in Vietnam at a tune she said year. traditional Fast Day holiday on Martin Luther King "was label- He said the publk is behind the fourth Monday in April and ing the U.S. tiie greatest purvey- the bill "but the word just hasn't replace it by observing the or of violence in the world" and reached some of our legislators federal Martin Luther King accusing the U.S. of "testing our yet" holiday on the third Monday in weapons on peasants as did the For hours on Feb. 8, the pros January. Germans." and cons of the controversial Only 65 Democrats and 24 "I can't turn around and give holiday bill were voiced at a Republicans voted for the bill the same honor to a man who public hearing in Representa- yesterday following a 70-minute condemned" the U.S. military, tives Kali at the State House. emotional debate. she said. The overwhelming majority Rep. Wayne Burton, D-Dur- nailed King's contributions to ham, hailed the slain civil rights Later Burton told reporters the cause of civil rights, includ- activist as envisioning "a coun- that as an Army captain who ing former Sen. James Splaine of try tree of hate, prejudice and served in Vietnam, "I resent her . Portsmouth who first attempted violence in a dream we should remarks.** such legislation 10 years ago. remember." A move to have Domaingue's remarks printed in the House A similar King holiday bill But Rep. Maurice MacDonald, Journal failed 124-198. R-Derry. retorted that "many was killed in the Senate March have worked and suffered to Gov. Judd Gregg said he 12, 1987. Another was killed in gain rights for many people." wanted to retain New Hamp- the House in 1985.. The House shire's unique- Fast Day that ' and Senate both defeated sepa- The bill's sponsor. Rep. Linda originated with a day of prayer rate measures in 1981 and tbttr KING for colonial Gov. John Cult who Senate killed another bill bacf became 01 in l«Sl and died. in 1979. 511 [Monitor, May 16, 1989] Swastika, Slur Painted On Temple Someone spray-painted a swastika and the words "blood drinkers" on the roof of the Temple Beth Jacob on Broadway Sun- day night Rabbi Robert Schenkerman said mem- bers of the temple were shocked and out- raged. "It's something that belongs back in the days of the Holocaust," he said. "We do not 6nd this a prank at alL It was a malicious act of unwarranted hatred and bigotry and stupidity and ignorance." The graffiti is the first sign of bigotry against Jews in Concord in a long time, Schenkerman said "There are people who have lived in this community for 30 years who have never seen anything like this." The temple was vulnerable to vandal- ism during the construction of Its addition recently, but suffered none, Schenkerman said. The graffiti was scrawled high on (fie sloping roof hi white paint sometime after II p.m., according to a police report A pas- serby saw it from the road Monday morn- ing, Schenkerman said. The fire department covered the graffiti with black paint yesterday, but the paint is darker than the roof, so the words and sign are still obvious, Schenkerman said. -UndaGoetz Vol. XXV) No. 1 Centra) High School, Manchester, NH 03104 October 10, »» 7 /rove noticed an increase in tension.. / Racial problems surface; non-students plague campus R\ Bob Gaumont who witnessed the incident, three or a complaint. rather than the actual fight. they've usually dropped out. In crt Racism nn campus has become a four white adults instigated the fight It was difficult to locate the stu- "We've had fights before at Cen- junior high, the trouble makers are t—' jorKcrn nf the administration, ac- v, itri at least as many black and white dents involved in the fight because of tra! and we'll have fights again. It's still around," be said. to ceding lo Principal WtUiam A. students. the relative chaos at the scene, ac- the racial overtones of this particular Racism is a concern of the Police Burns The presence of non-students "One adult came on to the cam- cording to Bums. fight that really bother me," he said. Department as it relates to fights and nn (.umjniv. (he increased enrollment pus, made threatening gestures at the "I could only get a few names of Hie Manchester Police Depart- law-breaking, according to Stein- n'~ nunoritx students, and the lack of students and taunted them in a students involved in the fight. Be- ment is not "tremendously con- met?.. However, there has not been a tolerance among racial groups all racially derogatory manner. 1 think cause a crowd of kids surrounded the cerned" about their recent visits to notable increase in racialviolence , ha>c contributed to the problem, he he had been drinking*' Lord said. fighters, it was hard to distinguish Central, according to Stcinmetr. he said. said. Manchester Mice arrived on die who had actually fought, once the "Our primary concern with "I have noticed an increase rn ten- scene with an ambulance. One par- incidentmde4P-Buro»8*id. .-• "Theae dungs qend to come in racism is the racial violence thatcan sion between black and white ticipant was in need of medical Lard is unsure whether he would spurts. Next month we might be come with it. On the juvenile level, sludenis 1\CJ1M> heard a tremen- assistance, but refused to enter the blame the students for fighting. making a lot of visits to West or racism bas not been much of a pro- dous number of racial slurs this ambulance. Lord noted. "After seeing a conflict start that Memorial," he said. blem,"' he said. vear." Burns said. According to Sergeant Thomas way, you wonder ifthe students were Central receives fewer police Ward 4 School Board member and Racism was evident September 18 Sieinmetz of the Manchester Police just in fighting. It's a tough one to visits than many junior high schools, National Association for the Ad- when a fight occurred on campus Department, Juvenile Division. call." he said. according lo Steinmetz. vancement of Colored People after school hours. According to the police did not arrest anyone Burns is more concerned about "By the time most kids that cause (NAACP) Secretary Vanessa ! social studies teacher Robert Lord, because nobody was available to file the reasons behind the disturbance problems hit high school age. Racism Pbge 13 The Little Green, October M, 1989 13 Teachers, NAACP explain reasons for racial attitudes from page 1 to have so few that teachers could j ust closed campus," he said. Burns to call the police. Burns agreed that (here are black take a head count during home- NAACP President Lionel John- Steinmetz confirmed that a students who are very defensive. Johnson contacted Burns about the room." Blanchard said. son thinks that students should ig- juvenile was arrested September 22. "'There have been time;, that I've mei(tent shortly after it occurred. Science teacher Tim Bertram! nore the color barrier and unite but could not comment on the cir- punished students, who were black, "Mr Burns and I talked for quite thinks that a lack of understanding against the non-students woo enter cumstances surround ing the arrest. for breaking school mies. A kit of a while about how and why a conflict may be a cause of racial attitudes. the campus. "State and federal taws mandate "•"Jcnts think that I'm punishing ofthat nature would st]II occur. Iistif] "Many people in Manchester have "Central students should not that most feets concerning juvenile them ju.st because they are black." puzzles me."" Johnson said. lived here their entire lives and have allow any person to destroy their casesareto remain confidential." he Johnson stated that one reason that said. Burns said. bigotn is becoming more visible in Lionel Johnson reeotr.;iien —RAPHAEL (Contmtudfrom Pag* One) Barnes was reluctant to be $5 membership fee on the bar. incident appeared to be a possi- interviewed for this story, not He said Creedin then said the ble violation of anti-discrimina- because he feared recrimina- membership list was full, and tion laws, they can do nothing tion, but because he said he was with that, he said, another unless Barnes files a complaint no longer upset about it. But he member tore up his card to make In an interview this week, eventually decided to discuss it room for Barnes. Barnes said he walked into the publicly in the hope it will bring Barnes said he then asked a club with several white mem- about Creedin's removal as club second time to be served, but bers and was twice denied president and "make it so that with Creedin standing there service by the bartender, who anyone who wants to can get watching, the bartender re- acted on the order of club served there " president Richard Creedin of fused, still saying, "It's not me. Manchester Street. Barnes also said he was so It's not me." pleasantly surprised by the sup- Kerrigan then bought the "You might expect something port he received from the other beers, and according to Barnes, like this in southern Mississip- members that he wanted the Creedin shouted at him that he pi," Barnes, a 12-year New story told clearly. Because of was "out of the club" because of Hampshire resident, told The that support. Barnes said, he Union Leader. "But I never it. would even return to the club if At the same time, Barnes said, expected it in Manchester, New invited. Hampshire." other members began shouting Barnes said that he and two or at Creedin, "You're wrong " Club president Creedin re- three Manchester men returned "I have to lake my hat off to called the incident but denied from Newport, where they had the patrons for that," Barnes that it was racially motivated. officiated a high school football said. "Everybody was apologiz- He said the ciub membership list game, to the Raphael Club, ing to me," and so, he said, he was full. where he had parked his car in decided not to press the matter However. Barnes said Creedin the late afternoon on Sept. 16. further, walked away from the shouted racial slurs at him. a "Since we officiated a good bar and drank a couple of beers charge with which other mem- ball game," he said, '"I asked others bought for him. bers concurred. them, 'How about me buying you Barnes said that during that The club's bylaws do not guys a beer?"" time, Creedin stood at the discriminate on the basis of race, Barnes said he saw worried corner of the bar and "shouted although they do discriminate glances among the other men, all the slurs. Some things you on the basis of sex, which itself can't print And other things may be illegal, according to but none protested, so ihey tike, you let one in here and the Human Rights Commission Dep- entered. next thing you know, there'll be uty Director Susan McKevitt About 100 patrons were in- 50 of them in here All the good Membership is open, upon side. On the television, Notre ones." payment of a $5 fee. to any male Dame played Michigan in a top Creedin, in a separate inter- U.S. citizen, 21 or over. 10 gridiron battle. view, acknowledged he ordered McKevitt said that since the Barnes walked to the bar and the bartender not to serve club as a practical matter is no began to order beers for the Barnes. "He wasn't a member," different than a commercial group from the bartender, he said. tavern, she doubted it could whose name he and other club Asked why Barnes was not legally discriminate against wo- members said they did not allowed to become a member, men, as can some clubs that know. Creedin said, "That's kind of follow specific charters. - Immediately, Barnes said, tricky." ' Barnes is a former wide re- Creedin walked to the bartender He said, "We've had them in ceiver at the University of and ordered him: "No (expletive here before — colored gentle- Southern California and a 32nd- . deleted) way." men, I mean." Asked why. then, degree Mason. He said that "The bartender turned to me Barnes was denied, Creedin while Creedin's behavior and said, 'It's not me. It's not "steamed" him, the other mem- me,'" Barnes said, and one of the cited "mitii»nt«n«» rireiiin. bers who were at the Raphael other football officials, Robert .ances." which. TTe said, was Club that day deserve praise Kerrigan, a physical education club business." because many of them told teacher at West High School, "This is a private club," Cree- Creedin his actions were wrong. intervened. in said to end the interview. They were clearly "mortified" We don't want any publicity." and proceeded to buy Barnes Barnes said Creedin told Ker- (Staff Sports Reporter Vin beverages for the hour he re- rigan that Barnes could not be iyivia contributed to this re- mained. served because he was not a «rt.] member. Barnes said he put his 516 THE UNION LEADER, MANCHESTER, N.H. —.Monday, October 16, 1989 RAPHAEL Raphael Club (Continuedfrom Page One) Rights Commission chairman, Barry J. Palmer, a copy President Tells editor at The Union Leader, said if the club didn't remove Members He's him as president, he would call for a state investigation. , Barnes said an apology Willing to Quit wasn't enough and Creeden ByJOHNTOOLE should quit his post Barnes Unien Leader Staff also commended club mem- Raphael Social Club Presi- bers who stood up for him in dent Richard J. Creeden has .the face of Creeden's actions. informally told members of .. Paradise characterized the the private Manchester men's membership meeting as an club he's prepared to resign effort "to resolve the whole, unfortunate mess." Tor the good of the club, due to •_. Said Paradise, "We are the outcry over his refusal of definitely handling it." membership to a black man. . > Paradise notes club mem- "Mr. Creeden has agreed if i>ers were put in the difficult he has to resign for the benefit situation of promptly resolv- of the club he will do so." the ing the trouble but having to club's chief steward, George research club rules first to see Paradise, said last night -what could be done. Meanwhile, after receiving . "This is one of those things a petition from club members, we couldn't solve overnight," Creeden has scheduled a spe- Paradise said. "We had a lot of cial membership meeting at 7 pressure on us, but we didn't p.m. Oct. 30 for what members .want to rush into it" say is a discussion of club policies and election of offi- cers. Including president. Creeden "is the one who called the meeting," Paradise said. Creeden, a Manchester Street resident, got into trou- ble with the club, and the community, for refusing both a drink and membership to a 44-year-old black Nashua res- ident, David Barnes. The NAACP last week demanded Creeden at least apologize for the incident. . And the state's Human RAPHAEL Page 7 517 Don't Blame the Club Given the presence of good interviewed by this newspaper (the will and intelligence, a final resolu- sole exception being Superior Court tion of the nasty racial controversy at Judge William O'Neil, who cravenly Manchester's Raphael Social Club, sought refuge In professed non-Invol- whose membership includes judges, vement) expressed their chagrin at the lawyers, businessmen, politicians and refusal to serve one David Barnes, a prominent local sports personalities, soft-spoken 44-year-old computer spe- should be Imminent. All signs are cialist from Nashua and high school positive. football official. Granted, there may bo some Eager to make amends, these striking similarities between the now members are understandably con- revealed September 16th racial inci- cerned about the effect of the dent at the West Side club and an incident on the club's reputation and, early-1960s infamous controversy at inforentially, on their own. the American Legion's Jutras Post, Well, we submit that, depending but it is the difference* that distin- on what happens now, they need not be guish the former from the latter. concerned —not on either count. To be sure, in each instance, a Barnes, a former wide receiver black man was refused bar service for the University of California, says because of the color of his skin, he was treated kindly by the over- refused by a bartender acting under whelming majority of the club mem- orders of a club official. bers who witnessed the disgusting In each Instance, the black man affair and has no interest in prolong- discriminated against conducted ing the controversy by filing a himself in a gentlemanly manner. complaint with the New Hampshire In each instance, although he Human Rights Commission. was quite properly angry that this Club president Richard J. Cree- sort of thing could happen in the din, assuming that he values the dub's "Deep North," he was reluctant to reputation, could, If he chooses, speak out. preserve the club's reputation unila- In each Instance, he did so only terally, simply by following up on his when he became convinced that long overdue promise to apologize to silence was the worst of evils, that the Barnes with a voluntary submission of intolerable simply could not be his resignation from the club presi- tolerated lest others be similarly dency. victimized. If Creeden cares about the But there the similarities end. club's repution, he should not put the The Jutras Post racial controver- membership in the position of having sy was a total debacle from beginning to consider whether to remove him to end. At a lime when the public from office. Barnes, who reported- pulpits of the clergy, academicians ly was on the receiving end of several and the news media were aflame with Creeden racial slurs, expressed his righteous indignation over racial conviction that the club president discrimination — in 'Little Rock, "was in no way representative of the Arkansas — most prominent local clientele of the club." citizens ratified the bigoted decision Barnes surely is entitled to more not to serve the young serviceman. by way of redress of his entirely That is, they ratified it cither openly Justified grievances than a mere by their words and actions or tacitly apology, belatedly and begrudgingly by their silence. offered. ; Subsequently, the state depart- Creeden must go, if not voluntarl- I ment of the American Legion shame- ly then by vote of the membership. fully whitewashed the whole affair. Indeed, the only way to harm the This came as no surprise at all, since reputation of the Raphael Club would its '.'investigator" began his "inquiry" be for the membership to tread the (in the presence of this writer) with benighted path that Jutras Post the words, "Okay, where is thin nigger followed In the early-Sixties and troublemaker?" allow the ill will generated by this But it is now nearly three decades incident to fester. later. In refreshing contrast to what It is almost Inconceivable that transpired during the Jutras Incident, that could be allowed to happen. prominent Raphael Club member* Jim Finnegan Kudos For Kerrigan Paeans, kudos and a special tip of was being denied service because of the hat to Robert Kerrigan, a physical his black skin pigmentation. Kerrigan education teacher at Manchester then bought the beers and reportedly West High School, who during the endured threats from the club presi- racial Incident at the Raphael Social dent that he was "out of the club." Club (see editorial above) tore up his The non-membership argument membership card in order to "make was phony; Kerrigan's gesture was room" for a prospective member who not. Jim Finnegan MONDAY, OCTOBER 16,1989 The Union Leader Manchester Social Club To Apologize to Black Man Accepts President's Resignation By JOHN TOOLE (was clear) that day and every for more than two decades, and Not one person condoned Union Leader Staff day since that the club members was consistently reelected, so what Creeden did. Harlan said Members of Manchester's Ra- deplored the actions of Mr. few knew what to do to replace Even those loyal to Creeden, phael Social Club, meeting pri- Creeden." him, they were sent scram- aware that he "did a good job" vately last night in an effort to After the incident became bling to check club rules. over the years, urged the former put a racial incident behind public through reports in The But then the club encountered president to make amends after them, voted unanimously to Union Leader earlier this the problem of finding people to the incident. "Even his strongest offer an apology and member- month, Creeden resigned. step forward and flll leadership supporters have told him he is ship to the black man barred Barnes, although he com- roles. wrong and urged him to make an from the club by their former apology," Harlan said. mended club members who de- "The adverse publicity scared »—» president. fended him at the time, has since many people away," Harlan "I understand Mr. Creeden 00 The 217 members who attend- filed a complaint with the state's said. "Nobody wanted to face the this week sent a registered letter ed the 52-minute session also Human Rights Commission over press" with his personal apology to Mr. formally accepted the resigna- the matter Hartan. who is used to doing Barnes," Harlan said. "I was told tion of that club president, Club members also chose one so as a leader of the city's that, and I certainly hope he Richard J. Creeden of Manches- of their number to co-sign teachers' union, stepped into the did." ter Street. checks with the treasurer and breach, as did a handful of "The members unanimously selected a five-member nomin- others. The club is prepared to deal voted a letter of apology be sent ating committee to search out The spokesman last night said with a stale investigation. to Mr. (David) Barnes in the candidates for the annual club he did not want to release names "Our position is if they want to name of the club and he will be elections, scheduled in January. of the new officials because come down and make an investi- offered membership in the They also reaffirmed mem- members want to keep their gation, we welcome it," Harlan club," spokesman Frank Harlan bership rules, which state that internal workings private for said. "We feel we have a very said in a telephone interview any male, 21 years of age and a now. ''Most of the people are a strong, pro- civil and human from the club. "Mr. Creeden's citizen in good standing of the lirrle eun-shy" due to the bad rights position in the club." tenure ... ended officially this publicity, he said. Witness, Harlan notes, the evening." United States, may belong. Club members demanded the "It's a cleaning up," Harlan strong reaction by club members Visting the club with friends meeting, which Creeden called said of last night's meeting. to Creeden's actions. "It was in September, Barnes, 44, a high before resigning. "It was a very orderly meel- unanimous condemnation of Mr school football official from Na- Several indicated they want- ing," he said. "Many members Creeden and Mr. Creeden's ac- shua, was refused service and ed to move quickly to put the •expressed they were horrified, tions," he said. denied membership by Cree- incident behind the club and get appalled and hoped it would "I think we want to go den. things back to normal. But never happen again. Most felt forward, go in a positive direct- The apology will be made to because Creeden had run the that it happened once was too ion," Harlan said of the club's Barnes, Harlan said, because "It club—well, by their accounts — much." active 476 members. 519 When Good Men Do Nothing When we are wrong, we admit it. for the University of Southern Caliror- And we were clearly mistaken in nia, is soft-spoken, but he is obviously our editorial conclusion that, "given not a pushover. the presence of good will and intellu "I'm the one who was humiliated gence" and the fact that the member- tn front of about 100 people and 1 still ship of the Raphael Social Club haven't heard a thing from anyone in includes judges, lawyers, business- the top echelon of the club," he told men, politicians and other prominent The Union Leader over the week- citizens, all signs were positive for a end. prompt resolution of a nasty racial Nevertheless, it is to the credit of controversy that had developed at the the computer specialist from Nashua Manchester establishment. that he has somehow managed to We wrote in our October 16th retain perspective on what happened editorial, "Don't Blame the Club," to him last September 16th, when he that it was "inconceivable" that the reportedly was also on the receiving Raphael Club, whose president, Ri- end of some vicious racial slurs. Early chard J. Creeden, reportedly refused on, he expressed his conviction that bar service to a black man, would the club president "was in no way "tread the benighted path that Jutras representative of the clientele of the (American Legion) post followed in the club," many of whom rallied to early-1960s and allow the ill will Barnes' support at the time of the generated by this incident to fester," incident. And, explaining his reluc- tant decision to avail himself of the Although Creeden finally an- Human Rights Commission's subpoe- nounced his long-overdue resignation na and decision-making powers, yesterday, we still stand justly ac- Barnes reemphasized: cused of naivete, albeit we arc in agreement with New Hampshire Hu- "I'm not after the patrons." man Rights Commission Chairman Now, on the heels of Barnes' Barry Palmer that "this type of statement that he had protested to bigoted demonstration was outlawed the state Human Rights Commission, more than a quarter-century ago and comes news of Creeden's long-over- ... has no place in New Hampshire, due resignation. Yet, over the week- now or <>ver." Had our cynical end, the club's chief steward, George faculties been in good working order Paradise, had announced that "we when we wrote the editorial, we would can't do it overnight." have realized that the problem would Well, apparently it was done ., be transformed into a crisis once good overnight. men decided to do nothing when The tragedy is that there was a confronted with evil. time, at the very outset of this As a result of the failure of the controversy, when the entire affair club's leadership to take the instant could have been — and should have remedial action required, the gentle- been — resolved overnight, literally, man treated so shabbily, 44-year-old by the simple expedient of Creeden David Barnes, appealed last week to apologizing promptly following the the Human Rights Commission. shameful, now five-week-old Incident and perhaps, to demonstrate sincerity, Which should surprise no one. offering to serve Barnes a drink The failure of the club's officials to personally. contact him, and of Creeden to proffer Had that been done, the matter his resignation — or even his belated, would not have been publicized and reluctant, all-but-promlsed apology — Barnes, judging by his earlier state- left Barnes with no other dignified ments, would have had the satisfac- alternative. The high school football tion that was his due. official, a former wide receiver —Jim Finnegan TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1989 The Union Leader MANCHESTER, N.H. — Tuesday, October 24,1989 TEL. 668-4321 30 CENTS RAPHAEL (Continued from Page One) no objections lo Barnes coming in, but Barnes said he is waiting lo see whether the club leader- ship will apologize for the inci- dent Barnes said he feared the same type of incident could Raphael Club happen if club leaders main- tained the status quo. Attempts to reach Creedt yesterday for comment were unsuccessful. Before resigning, Creeden called a special meeting for Oct. President Qu 30 and, according to Paradise, il By JOE MAPOTHER high school football game. Ac- sti!l wiU be held although the Union Leader Staff cording to Barnes, Creeden question whether membership Richard J. Creeden, embat- "Personally shouted racial epithets and re- can elect new leadership under tled president of the Raphael speaking, it's fused to let other club members club byiaws has not been sorted Social Club, resigned his posi- buy Barnes a beer, although the out. The bylaws state nomina- tion yesterday in another after- welcome." membership present largely was tions will be taken in December David Barnes opposed to Creeden's actions. and elections held in January, shock from a September inci- Paradise said, and the cfub dent when Creeden refused "Personally speaking, it's wel- wants to stick to the rules it was service to a black customer in come," said Barnes of the rcsig founded under. the private club. Rights Commission about the nation. But he said, "I have yet lo The long-time president oral- Sept. 16 incident. hear from anyone tn manage- "I'm still high on New Hamp- ly gave his resignation yesterday According to Paradise, the ment and we're talking six w eek? shire," said Barnes, who moved morning and then signed a brief resignation bad been in the now," since the incident to Nashua 10 years ago. He said statement to that effect which works for some time but only "1 am technically sulJ u one of the reasons for moving was posted in the West Side club, became official yesterday. pursuit of restitution. j was to escape racial tension. according to George Paradise, "1 still can't drink in ther^. "It's kind of a lefl-handed slap chief steward. Related Story, Page 17 even if the patrons say I caie in the face that says, 'Hey, it's The resignation came one day They said it was all right»he fir ^ still around,' " Barnes said. after the man who was refused Creeden refused service to time I walked in there/' Barn service, David Barnes, 44, of Barnes when he entered the 237 said. Nashua, announced that be had Granite St. club with two mem- Paradise has said the club has contacted the state Human bers after they had officiated a RAPHAEL ' Page 8 521 THI UNION LEADER, MANCHISTER, N.H. — ThtiTMtoy, Novombr •, THOMAS HERMAN, a part-time Newfleld* police officer, handed out Halloween candy In his Kv Klux Klan robes, (AP) Newflelds Selectmen Complain KKK Hotline Lists Their Phones NEWFIELDS (AP) ~ The that is played on his home's Ku Klux Klan&man who works answering machine. for the Rockingham County "He is, in essence, sieving Sheriffs Department is con- the Klan on the selectmen," tinuing to make waves. board chairwoman Betsy Dozens of calls have come Cocs told Foster's Daily Dem- into the department in recent ocrat of Dover. weeks complaining about Last month, selectmen vot- Thomas Herman, an active ed to suspend Herman from member of the KKK who had his job a.s a police officer with been working as a radio the New fie Ids Police Depart- technician for Rockingham ment for 60 days. They cited County, threats against Herman and To compound matters, a concern that another officer controversial photo of Her- mijjht be confused with him as man in his Klan robe handing reasons for the decision. out candy to children on Herman's message urges Halloween appeared in a caller:, to complain about the local paper and rekindled selectmen's decision. emotions in the area. Meanwhile, Kockinuham Now selectmen in Ncw- County ShcrilT Wayne Vettcr flelds say they're upset with says he has no intention of Herman becau.se he has in- firm},' Herman from his job a.s cluded their names and phono loni» ho koeph his personal numbers in a Klnn recording views nwiiv from his work. 522 THE UNION LEADER, MANCHESTER, N.H. — Monday, December 4, 1989 new nampsnire Faces Influx Of Ethnic Population CONCORD (AP) — New ily here. So it's likely we'll get Hampshire's snow-while image more." is being colored by an influx of State officials acknowledge ethnic groups and the slate has that New Hampshire's demo- to be prepared lo deal with the graphics arc changing, but they potential racial problems that say the real ethnic mix won't be might ensue, some observers known until results of the 1900 say. census come out in 1991. "If the state's self-image ad- heres more to myth than reality, Stale and private groups have it will,, have great difficulty shown concern over potential dealing.with problems like the problems. The state Depart- possibility of increasing racial ment of Education has created a hostility, in communities," said panel to encourage multicul- Arnic Alpert. program coordi- tural education in the schools. nator for the New Hampshire-' The New Hampshire Humani: chapter of the American ties Council will hold a confer- Friends Service. Committee, ence Saturday on the state's The state is expected to gain cultural landscape more Central and South Ameri- "The purpose of this confer' can residents, more blacks, and ence is to get people to start may see more refugees from thinking New Hampshire U not Soviet bloc nations, according to this monolithic, Anglo-Saxon a report in the Boston Sunday state." said Kathy Smith, the Globe. council's assistant director, "It's not very apparent to The conference will feature a people, but there arc 7,000 black keynote speaker, Henry Hispanies in Manchester, and .Louis Gates, an award-winning Nashua's population is- even literary critic* and author who- Urgcr," said Nury Marquez. attended Phillips Exeter Acade-.. Executive director of Manches- my and has an honorary degree ter's Latin American Center. from Dartmouth College •Patricia Garvin. the. stale A new group backed by the refugee coordinator, said thai Exeter Chamber of Commerce because New Hampshire's popu- was formed to oppose the spread lation has been 99 percent while of the Ku Kiux Klan in the area until now, even a change to 92 after the disclosure of. a Klan percent while can be signifi- recruiter on the NcwfieJds po- cant lice force. Gat'Mri said the state has a Alperl said more racial diver- number of Cambodian. Laotian sity may threaten the state's and Vietnamese refugees and image of itsclfas it looks in a new she expects there will, be more mirror. Vietnamese coming in, as well as "The New Hampshire myth is Romanians. Czechs nndjx>ssibly t hat everybody's white and Prot- Soviets. estant, that they live in small "Romanians arc the largest towns with white people, white growing tiroup," she said. "But churches, white houses and it's possible we may see a real white mountains," he said- "In increase in the number of So- the country, there has been an \ icts because half of the refu- increase in racist incidents on gees admitted to the U.S, over campuses in the past few years." the next, year will be Soviets — reflected by some at Dartmouth Soviet Jews and evangelical or and the University of New Peniucosial rhrtttians with fam- Hampshire. 523 THE UNION LEADER, MANCHESTER, N.H. — Tuesday, January 1©,1990 DEMONSTRATORS, mostly from St. Paul's School In Concord, carried placard* calling for Now Hampshire to honor Martin Luther King Day yostorday at tha State House In Concord* (Staff Photo by Nancy West) NH Students Protest Lack of King Holiday From Staff and Wire Reports during a snowstorm in down- CONCORD — Four of every • The nation paused yester- town Portsmouth. live school districts in New day to honor the memory of "We had the day off, so we Hampshire did not official- Martin Luther King Jr. figured we'd do something use- ly recognize Martin Luther King Pag* 3 ful," Herman said. Day yesterday, but students at • Five lawmakers will move to Schultz said the Klansmen several held demonstrations in make Dr. Martin Luther King's were pelted with snowballs by memory of the slain civil rights birth date a New Hampshire young people and left. leader. holiday. Police in Newmarket and Students at high schools in the Page 4 Exeter also reported brief sight- Pcnacook section of Concord. ings of men in white sheets and Milford, Memmaok nnd Wolfo- hoods. borq held demonstrations lo House. ' • ' "Nobody seemed interested protest the state's unwilling- Meanwhile, a Ku Klux Klan so they got into their car and ness to recognize King's birth- leader and two companions Melt," Sgt. Kevin Cyr of the day as a holiday. dressed in white robes and Newmarket police said. hoods handed out leaflets In Herman, a Rocklngham Coun- And several hundred students downtown Portsmouth and two ty Sheriffs Department employ- and faculty members of St. neighboring towns. ee, was fired recently from his Paul's School, which announced Steven Schultz, a reporter for job as a part-time police officer yesterday morning that it would Foster's Daily Democrat in in Newfields. He also is chal- observe the holiday, marched Dover, said KKK recruiter Tom lenging Exeter's refusal to let from the private school's Con- Herman of Exeter handed out him sell guns from his home. cord campus to the State leaflets yesterday afternoon PROTESTS Page 8 524 know King was black. "That's -PROTESTS- disgusting," she said. "That just proves how we're not being (Continued from Page One) taught," Though New Hampshire is on educating the group about But assistant principal Brian one of four slates that docs not Martin Luther King." Erwin said students are taught Recognize the national Martin As students crowded the li- about King at the school. Luther King Day holiday, 35 of brary to share thoughts and Students in other districts the stale's 171 school districts impressions of Dr. King, some that celebrate King day proba- do. refused to attend the protest, bly are skiing, working or sleep- The olhor states that do not laughing and exchanging skepti- ing, according to Erwin. "At recognize King Day are Mon- cal remarks in the hallways. least these kids have some sense tana, Idaho and Arizona. Ari- "There are a lot of people of what we're doing here," he zona had been set to take the day here (just to get the day off from said. off but did not, pending another classes)," said student Betsy Students who cut classes lo vote to ratify the holiday. Nolan. attend the sit-in will be pena- At Merrimack Valley High Nolan said she agreed with lized depending on their disci- .School in Penacook, aboul 150 the idea of taking a stand for pline record, which could mean *'tudents — organized by an civil rights, but suggested a "a detention situation all the •impromptu series of telephone request to the school board or way through to a suspension," ails Sunday night and word of other administrators might be according to Erwin. mouth in the halls yesterday more effective. morning — walked out of their McBee said he plans to peti- At Kingswood Regional High second period classes to remem- tion the school board for a King in Wolfeboro, about 125 stu^ ber King. holiday. dents took part in a demonstra- "I think they're just trying to Some students who partici- tion that kept them out of classes show that Martin Luther King pated stood at a microphone and for about two hours after lunch. Day is important," said Thorn expressed opinions of King, his Students from St. Paul's car- Tucker, a senior who helped ideas, and how they affect their ried signs and chanted, "Ain't organize the rally. own lives today. gonna let nobody turn me "A lot of people don't know "This isn't just white-black around." "who he is or what he was all racism, it's everywhere. Every At the State House, House about," senior Mike Krumcn- race of people has been op- Speaker Douglas Scamman told acker said. "This was our own pressed at some point in history them a bill calling for an official personal way of remembering and Martin Luther King stood King holiday could not be intro- liim. To quote him, 'If we're up for every race of people. duced again until next year. wrong in what we're doing, then That's why we're here," said Such legislation has been voted justice is a lie.' " student Alan White. down in the past. ' More than 200 students at Junior Amy Poticha told a In Manchester, the Martin Milford AREA High School used cheering audience, "I'm Jewish Luther King Day Coalition spon- the school library for a sit-in and I'm here for the blacks (and sored a breakfast at the Cha- demonstration. everyone). We need to get to- teau Restaurant in Manchester. Nathaniel McBec. one of a gether. We need to believe in Special awards were present- small number of black students each other as well as Martin." ed to Lionel Johnson, president at the school, Maid his parents Some at the sit-in said the of the Manchester chapter of the gave him permission to stay speeches were their only source NAACP, and the guest speaker, home in honor of King but he of information about King at State Rep. Wnyne M. Burton, chose instead to organize the school. assistant dean of the Whitte- sit-in. "We're learning what our more School at the University of ' "I decided to come and make teachers should be teaching us," * .New Hampshire. my reasons known because 1 said junior Mim Malin. Union Leader Correspondent believe he deserves a holidav," She reported one of her Robin Mnrganc'u contributed to McBee said. "I'm just planning classmates this year did not even 'his report [From the Portsmouth Herald, Jan. 16, 1990] Klan holds King Day area recruitment effort received caBs of Klan members By MAGGIE REED walking up and down Water Street Heratd Staff Writer Five Seacoast communities visited around 3 pan. Monday, but by the time police officers arrived, they EXETER - Ku Klux Klan telephone number. Mr. Lewis said eter, is the Grand Secretary of the were gone. members, dressed in full Klan be did not talk to the Klan Invisible Empire, Knights of the ^Newmarket Police Chief Paul garb, showed up in various members, except to wish them a Ku Klux Klan, Realm of Maine, Gahan related a similar story. Scacoast towns in a recruiting ef- New Hampshireand Vermont. "They stayed « few minutes, no fort on the occasion of Martin Mr. Lewis said some youths Although the Klan's presence one showed any interest, and they Luther King Jr. Day Monday came out of the Newmarket House has been known, Monday was the left. We received a couple of calls afternoon. of Pizza and started yelling at the first occasion that Klan members but by the time we got there, they Klan members, including Ex- Klansmen, "giving them grief. recruited in public in Klan outfits. were gone," Chief <2ahan said this en mornrag. to eter's Thomas Herman, showed up en in Newfields, Exeter, Newmarket, Mr. Herman is currently a Portsmouth and Dover Monday as "I saw them going up and down the street, and radio technician with the Rock- part of an area-wide recruiting ingham County Sheriff's sweep, according toMr . Herman. thought this was a piece of American history, so I Department. Prior to the revela- Peter Lewis, a Newmarket res- tion of his involvement with the Ku ident, said there were three men went out and took a couple of shots... pictures, not Klux Klan, be was also a part-time and one woman recruiting in his Newfields police officer. town. "I saw them going up and -PeterLewis He was relieved of his duties as down the street, and thought this Newmarket resident a police officer by the Newfields was a piece of American history so Board of Selectmen in early I went out and took a couple shots December. Board members cited a Even I was tempted to throw Several towns, including E\eter, lack of confidence in Mr. Herman, ... pictures, not guns," the Main snowballs at them, but that Street resident said. have received reports of Klan insubordination and intimidation wouldn't have done any good." literature being left on motor as reasons for the dismissal. The Klan members were han- The existence of the Ku Klux vehicles, but no Klan members ding out leaflets up and down Main Mr. Herman has said be will Klan in the Seacoast area first have been seen. file a civil rights violation suit with Street. Mr. Lewis said. One car- came to light in a Portsmouth ried a sign that read "Save our Exeter Police Chief Frank the American Civil Liberties Union Herald story in late September. Caracciolo said his department concerning use firing. land, join the Klan" and gave a Mr. Herman, of 9 Salem St., Ex- THE UNION LEADER, MANCHESTER, N.H. — Saturday, February 3,1990 CONCORD (AP) — Criminals tolerate Ihese types of actions," would carry' a maximum sen- Marcus Hum, a board driven by racism or bigotry will TromtblyWd. ..> . rj.1'1'-J~ tence of a year HXnild bring a ber of the Citizens Alliance face stiffer penalties under a bill Trombly said vanfiaEskaUast sentence of two to five;;years. Gay and Lesbian Rights, that would add hate crimes to a year at a Concord synagogue, was ;Felonies which usually bring a Trombly's legislation. He, list of offenses that qualify for one of the;.incidents that in- ^maximum of 15 years could put people who act out of prej longer jail terms.. • ' spired hira to propose -i he) pe# ?the offender away for life. and bigotry pose more off a legislation. Another suciveventi threat to society than ottier - The House Judiciary Commit- he said, was the 1988 Nashua Claire Ebel, executive direc- criminals. . . =.•-, \ tee will vote next week oax the murder of two women said to be bill sponsored by Rick'Trombly, tor of the New Hampshire Civil When swastikas/are paint£< D-Boscawen. • lesbians; >, <• "'--.••*,. jL> %Liberties Union,* was the only on a synagogue or violent Mm New Hampshire, law currently^ person who spoke against the guage against homosexus At a committee hearing. allows judges to give -sniffer bill at Thursday's hearing. Ebel painted onagay man's door, Trembly ^aid crimes committed sentences under six' eifenst- said she.would prefer to see New affects all Jews and all out of religious, racial, sexual or stancesj-jnduding cases involv- Hampshire develop comprehen- uals,hesaid. •-v •-"'.•• ethnic haftred should be pun- ing elderly or handicapped; vic- sive civil rights legislation, so "It spreads fear in a 3t$$ ished moije severely than other tims, extreme cruelty, in a that defendants in such cases ordinary crime doesn't,!' he s*ic$ offenses. 1 . . murder and sex crimes on a would face separate charges to "The. ripple • efTects of- ttiestt "We mujst put people on notice victim under the age of 13.... which they would have an oppor- individual hate crimes now that | we're not going to A crime which normally tunity to respond. vere." Nashua Police Agree to $140,000 Settlement in Brutality Suit KwKWfSffRIteenrra _-j i. j ..-,.. .= _ „__ _ _. . . _ _ .. _ ._ . rest, assault and battery, mali- Three police officers. Harold to come out," said Rose Gomez, between Even and Gerow short- ^fespradeM cious prosecution and deprival Even, Nelson Gerow and Ken- Fred's mother. "I want it to be ly afte* the incident, a conversa- NASHUA — A $140,000 out- of constStational rights, was neth Parker, responded to the known that there is «"iytMng tion In which Even tells Gerow to Fcourt settlement has been scheduled to go to trial March 5. scene, according to police re- wrong with the Nashua Police add aw assault charge to the cached between the police George Lindh, the Manches- ports. Department I want to see that arrest report so that "we can epartmeritand a local man who ter attorney representing the As a group of people looked this doesn't happen to anyone better justify what happened." •leged three officers beat him police department in the case, on. Gomez alleged, one officer else." Gerow responded, "It aint gon- Hh abUlyclubduringa routine would confirm only that the case handcuffed him. and when the Gomez said that his life has na look good" to charge bin Test in 1987, according to the had been resolved, but he re- two other officers arrived, he changed much since the incident after Use fact •an's lawyer. fused to confirm the settlement was beaten on the back, arms in 1987. He is on medication. He The tape, which came from The settlement between Fred amount. and legs with a biHydnb by Even has had trouble sleeping and the routine recordings made of amez, 22, of 18 Conant Road. "The Nashua Police Depart- while Parker and Gerow held eating, and he doesnt like to go all phone calls in the police id the Nashua Police Depart- ment bas made no admisskm of him against the roof of the police *uy where by himsei£ station, was played at Gomez's ent was reached during the liability or wrongdoing whatso- cruiser. "I feel like I always have to criminal trial in 1987, according «t week of February, accord- ever." said Lindh. "This is stiU a Gomez, who was 18 at the have a witness with me," said to Holmes. g to Ralph Holmes, Gomez's disputed claim." time, wascharged with disorder- Gomez. Gomez said he still faces 5 lorney. Gomez was arrested at 1:30 ly conduct, two counts of resist- Witnesses, eight to 10 of whom charges of speeding, resisting A $2 million civil case, which p.m. on April 12.1987, after his ing arrest and assault, a charge came forward after the 1987 detention and possession of ught damafes from the de- girlfriend called police following which was added later. Gomez incident, were the only reason marijuana stemming from his itment tor alleged false ar- an argument with him. was found innocent of all Gomez received an oul-of-court arrest earlier this year. charges in July 1987. settlement, said Mrs. Gomez. Gomez alleged that this recent Officer Even has since left the The only way we beat this arrest is just one more in a series Nashua Police Department and thing was because we had the of harassment stops made by is working in Hartford. Conn. witnesses that came forward." Nashua police against him and Parker and Gerow are still said Mrs. Gomez, "and thank his family since the incident working as police officers in God for them. It never would "The settlement b a lot of FRED GOMEZ Nashua. have gone as far as it has if it money,* slid Gomez, "bat for ... The Gomez family, while weren't for the witnesses." what they have done, it's not remainder will be used to pay happy with the settlement, Another key factor in the enough." medical bills and reimburse his hoped that they would get their out-of-court settlement, said Lawyers will take a large mother and father for other day in court Mrs. Gomez, was the tape rec- percentage of the settlement expenses he incurred over the [From the Union Leader, Mar. 20, 1990] "All we wanted was the truth ording of a phone conversation amount, said Gomez, and the past three years. 528 THE UNION LEADER, MANCHESTER, N.H. — Wednesday, March 21, 1990 tal's Speech-Language Patholo- Attorney: gy Department The hospital sent out more than 100 letters to Accent Offer attorneys, managers, professors and others. The letters said, in 9 part, " . *. you may have 'Disgusting clientele who would benefit from By JOHN HART a program which reduces for- eign accent and improves Union Leader Correspondent overall speaking skills." EXETER—An Exeter Hospi- The letter was signed by tal program designed to tame Michel and her associate, Mi- the foreign accents of people chele Poynton-Marsh. who speak English as a second Michel said the program is not language has drawn a strong widely known in this area but protest from the president of the is popular in other parts of . Rockingham County Bar Asso- the country. ciation. Michel and Poynton-Marsh "This is disgusting," said asked the recipients of the letter Larry Gillis, a criminal defense — which came with an attached attorney. program outline — to "dissemi- "I think the mindset behind nate copies to your clients as this program is dangerous," he appropriate." said. "It invites criminal law- Michel said, "We're targeting yers to participate in cultural professionals in the business of imperialism and cultural geno- communicating with a variety of cide. •people who may be of a foreign "My clients are not perform- background and have English as ing bears in a circus," said Gillis. « second language." "You don't have speak 'Yankee' . The program was developed to get a fair jury trial here." by Arthur J. Compton of the „ Exeter Hospital officials say Institute of Language and Pho- they can't comprehend Gillis1 nology in San Francisco. criticism of the Foreign Accent The program outline said, in Reduction Program. part, that it is intended for Karen Michel, speech-lan- "English-speaking foreign indi- guage pathology supervisor, viduals whose accents are in- said of Gillis, "I don't know terefering.with the ability to where he's "coming from. This communicate effectively within (program) is specifically deve- the confines of their work, or loped j ust to enhance someone's social environments." >peakinE skills, intelligibility ;.. Michel said the program is *'\ The program was developed taught by certified instructors under the guidance of the hospi- in small groups or privately. 529 THE UNION UAPER, Moiwhesfr, N.H. — Thuridoy, April 5, 1990 5 Afore States OK King Day; NH Opponents Are Unmoved COXCOHIHAI1) — Spreading nalioniil acceptance of a holulaj honortn>! I lie lte\ Munin Luther King .|r has loft Now Ifnmpshiic opponents of the observance unmoved. Twenl>-< wo year.s after KIIIHV death, only throe. Males — New Hampshire. Amona anil Mon- tana — ha\e not adopted n holiday in honor ol the civil rights lender who was assassfti- nted April 4. I'Kiti. in Memphis. Tenn, Kentucky. \\>oming and Jdu- horecentlj bowed to pressure to name days (hat indirectly honor King, seven years after Congress created a holiday to honor him on the third Monday in January, near his Jan. 15 birthday. New Hampshire won't be iiuiek to follow suit. Senate MARTIN LUTHER KINO JR. Majority Loader Kdward Du- ponl. H-Koeheslor. said Tiles- tl.iy 'We alwa\s liii\e Ihi' distinc- '' We always ha ve I ion olbeing the last or the first," he said "In the mind-; ol most the distinction of legislators, it (the national prac- being the last or tice) isn't a significant I art we use to support Miirtin Luther the first." King clay." liduard Dupont. It-Rochester. In fact, the Legislature just Senate Majority Leader rejeetud a plan to change its Memorial Day observance from .May 30 to the federally mandat- ed last Monday in Maj not suggest a badge of couruge New Hampshire legislators hut rather a badge of intoler have consistently \oted down ance and prejudice " King holiday proposals sJnee Uuponl suggested honoring l»7!t After losing in Ijiao. back- King "n1; one of many civil right-, er's said Kiev would irv ai;ain in contributors." including Presi HIHI. the ne\t time lemslative dents Kennedy and Johnson, bui rules allow it holidav backer Sen. Su.saii Rep Deborah Ai ne.-it-li. l>- McLanc. I {-Concord. sai National Digest Arizona Lawmakers OK King Day PHOENIX (A P)—The Arizona House Tuesday joined th senate in voting lc> create a paid state holiday honoring th Hev Martin Luther King AT , and Gov, Rose Mofford said ih would sign the bill before the- day's end The House measure, passed 35-24. designates the thir Monday in January as Martin Luther King-Civil KightsDavK stale employee: It also would repeal a September bill that created a Kin holiday hut eliminated the slate's paid Columbus Da holiday THE UNION LEADER, Manchester. N.H. — Thursday, May 17.1990 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1,1990 ACLU TQ Support (Continued From Page One) '-' ' suspended last- October :and > Bfttel said the 21 I reinstatement. to' the fdepart- board or director* ha Klansman Who j ment • ' * <,:'«•, -^ *nd ^spirited. IJOOB"' r The reasons cited for Her- several hours over ! man's firing included the; pnb- represent Herman- | lie's reluctance to rely on emer- Ajri; gency help -because Herman members chose! Lost Police might respond to calls; Her-' alleged lights vioUt Ity MICHAEL COUSINEAU Herman said he was Bred last December; Union Loader Stan because of his ~KKK" membefshfp," a" white- numbers on Ms KKK telephone -targeted (by the „ The state chapter of the American Civil supremacist group in which he I^. ao-pgional- hotline; and Herman's insubor- Concord attorney Jo Liberties Union has agreed to represent an recruiter. The--Newfields .Boards of-Selecti dinatjoo for calling the. select- berg,,who is on vaca ISxeter'raan who says his membership in-the Ku maintains Herman was terminateebbeca Klux -Klan cost him his members lost confide.._ 1 ob as a Newfields police in his abTUtytcrperforml officer. the reason WetJjok.theac&h The New Hampshire police officer. *)j~ did," Selectinat Fran L&e s Civil Liberties Union iastmghL ^ -•.•%-. -....t iigreed late Monday to radio technician with theJ. "I feel we were wOghing flypyetter said be i._ ]>rovide legal represen- P R'dcEKtfipWCoTTn tyj, questions of fundamental cbnsti- > liurprised't that the civi 1 i lation to Thomas Her- ~ Sheri'ffIs-I>epartmenR I tuUbnal rights vs. serious issues group wUl represent He man, who was terminate' concerning our community- and V-"lCltfwas:really a h» c THE UNION LEAOCfl, Manchester, N.K. — Frktay. August 3, T990 Cheshire Officials: Racist Paraphernalia Has No Place at Fair NORTH SWANZEY